The Alan Sondheim Mail Archive

garden spirit the day the bodies died *


Alan: now now now now now now now now
now now now now now now now now
now now now now now now now now
now now now now now now now now
now now now now now now now now
now now now now now now now now

Nikuko: if not now now now when

Alan: when the bodies get out of the garden
when the bodies get out of the garden
when the bodies get out of the garden

Nikuko: you didn't mention a garden

Alan: the garden's at the end of the garden.
just there where the garden ends.
just right over there.

Nikuko: when when when when when when
when when when when when when
when when when when when when

Alan: when you can't see something. you can't.
when you can't see something over the wall.
because of the wall. because the wall's there.
you can't see the wall. because the wall's there.
because the wall's there.

Nikuko: I can't see the wall at the end of the garden.
the wall is there and the bodies are there.
the bodies are at the end of the garden.
the bodies are where the garden's at the end of the
garden. where the wall is.

Alan: I think there's a wall there.

Nikuko: where where where where where where
where where where where where where
where where where where where where
where where where where where where
where where where where where where

Alan: there was a wall.
now now now now now now now now
now now now now now now now now

Nikuko: when was that wall then.
then was it when what then.
when the bodies were then.
when that what then.

Alan: an impression is a furrow on a ridge.
a scar is a lip on a skin.
a jar is a slip on a bin.
a body is a cut on a ridge.

Nikuko: when when when when when when
when when when when when when
when when when when when when


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* production: repeated words may be spoken or
sung etc. in any style; the repetitions may be
longer or shorter. they should last long enough
to become paste, troubled and senseless sound.
move on to the next bit at will. stand around.