Improv-ing -- week 3

Going Down.

We talked about Quisiera Declarar this week in class. I noticed that it's thirteen senentence poem broken up into lines that take up three pages of the book. On the other hand, Going Down in made up of eleven lines and takes up a little more than half the page. The poem is a little more choppy. I noticed that the senetences towards the beginning of the chapter are a lot shorter (especially the first three lines). As the poem moves down the page the sentences get longer, but they're still broken up with commas.

calisthenics -- Week 3

One of Erika's suggestions during class was to choose a topic that you konw nothing about, do some research and find new, interesting vocabulary to use for poetry.

I chose carpentry.

Two basic types of tools: Hand-guided and Power Based

hand guided tools: chisels, hand saws, framing hammer

Power based tools: circularr saws, electric drills and framing nailers

These tools are used to shape sheet and blocks of wood to correct dimensions for the structure you are ceating.

The function is to cut, thin width and create holes and crooves in the structure.

Some historical tools: The Auger – hand tool with threaded shank and cross handle used for oring holes in wood or ice; a drill bit. The were used for making wagon wheels and musical instruments

Spokeshaves and drawknives were used to shape wooded bowls and wooden chair seats.

Saftey precautions: make sure blades are sharp and guards are in place. Wear saftey glasses and make sure chords are out of the way.

Junkyard -- Week 3

1) White paper bags steamed stiff for suffercating.

2) Collections of the same black cobra hung neatly in your walk-in waiting to be knotted around your neck parallel to your backbone ready to attack.

3) Like a bagworm that's lost its bag
I made an attept to find my host
as soon as i arrived
to guess at the construction of body politics.

The elementary strucutre of the symbolic process.
Focusing as if by a will of its own. It's a process.
The so-called internal
makes a request for the dream oracle.
We've got something for you to sit in Lady Oracle.

4) The Bag Lady lost Chanel and made an attempt to find another host.
Walking hard like she's hacking away the concrete with her
red peg leg shoes and roach killing toes;
The construction of body politics

Calisthenics -- Week 2

Class room exercise: Sonnet

There are those who say that the sky is bluer on the other side. There are those who say that we all have our own unique, DNA. But i know that the pebbles drown in the grass and never see the muck and the mire and not the baby blue sky.

Improv-ing -- Week 2

The Lesson
Maya Angelou

I keep on dying again.
Veins collapse, opening like the
Small fists of sleeping
Children.
Memory of old tombs,
rotting flesh and worms do
not convince me against the challenge. The years
And cold defeat live deep in
Lines across my face.
They dull my eyes, yet i keep on dying
Because i love to live.

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Snapshots woven deep in
the matted coils that reside on my crown.
All 98 of them.
Chest stinging with the anxiety
I am only human
commonly overlooked like the
Right Answer.
Shave my head and shine it clean
Crocheting courage from the dreaded
coils that fall to the ground.
Recycle, reuse
It'll grow anew.

Free Entry -- Week 2

Toss it over your shoulder and
lick the salt off your fingers.
Criss-cross. Good Luck.

Forced air mixed with purkulating lips.
Expression.

Lips purkulating with mixed air.
Forced Freedom.

Slosh the salt water behind your lips
Radioactive isotopes for inactive thyroids.
Open your throught.
Thought.

Magic grounds for easy consompution.
Digest.
Mixed with the magic fluid.

gargle
spit.
Speak.

Junkyard -- Week 2

"It's not hard to fall when you float like a cannonball." -- Damien Rice

" Battered Bleak of brain all drained of brillance in the dear light of the zoo." -- Howl

" Understand that the body is the foam of the wave"

"Like the dinosour he had the power witout the ability to change, strength without the capacity to learn."

"Conformity, it would seem, is being elevated into something akin to a religion."

"Existence VIP"