Tom Clark: image via Voices of Oklahoma, 2018
Five Poems in the English Language
Early Model 154 wind tunnel model aerial drone: photographer unknown. n.d. (Ryan Aeronautical Collection, San Diego Air and Space Museum)
Early Model 154 wind tunnel model aerial drone: photographer unknown. n.d. (Ryan Aeronautical Collection, San Diego Air and Space Museum)
1
The sun rose. The child wept.
The window opened. Bill opened the window.
School begins at nine. He began his lecture at ten.
She lived a happy life. They died a dreadful death.
He slept a peaceful sleep. I dreamed a happy dream. He sighed a deep sigh.
2
The sun shone. The dog bit. The man knocked.
My father came... Yesterday was...
The soldier seemed dead. His face became white.
3
He smelt the flowers. The flowers smelt sweet.
The boy looked eagerly. The boy looked eager.
Ted looked better than his friend.
4
Tom Brown was my teacher there.
He seems the most important man here.
5
The ladies were given the flowers.
The dog was given the food.
the boy was given the dog.
The mother is given a son.
The son is given a mother.
The son is given a mother.
TC: Five Poems in the English Language, from Airplanes, 1966
Eastern Air Liner crash landing, Curles Neck Farm, Virginia: photo by Adolph B. Rice Studio, 21 July 1951 (Rice Collection, Library of Virginia)
Going to School in France or America
Goody Two-Shoes (cover): artist and author unknown, New York, 1888 (text first published London, 1765 as The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes, authorship attributed to Oliver Goldsmith [?]); image by Inductiveload, 22 March 2010
Drugs are a tuition,
and tuition is teaching,
but in French tuer is to kill,
and so in France drugs are killing.
What does it mean to “make a killing”?
It means to make money,
and money is a means
to certain kinds of killing,
as for instance dropping millions of pennies
on someone from a helicopter.
Money can also be used to buy drugs, helicopters,
or to pay for your tuition,
but money, drugs, and killing
are not the sort of pursuits
a person should pursue with his tuition
if he is a student in France or America.
TC: Going to School in France or America, from Airplanes, 1966
A French female violin student wearing high-heel shoes getting spanked with a violin bow by a strict female teacher: photo by Jacques Biederer, Ostra Studio, Paris, 1930s; image by Handcuffed, 7 August 2011
"Two Shoes, Ma'am, Two Shoes": illustration in Goody Two-Shoes: artist and author unknown, New York, 1888 (text first published London, 1765 as The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes, authorship attributed to Oliver Goldsmith[?]); image by Inductiveload, 22 March 2010
"The Spelling Lesson": illustration in Goody Two-Shoes: artist and author unknown, New York, 1888 (text first published London, 1765 as The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes, authorship attributed to Oliver Goldsmith[?]); image by Inductiveload, 22 March 2010
Blue sky with cumulus congestus: photo by Krzysztof, 2006
Sky with puffy clouds: photo by imageman, 2006
Tom Clark, Vence, Alpes-Maritimes, France, 1966
Nehi Corporation advertisement for Royal Crown Cola: Life, 12 March 1945 (Gallery of Graphic Design)
TC: Five Poems in the English Language, from Airplanes, 1966
Eastern Air Liner crash landing, Curles Neck Farm, Virginia: photo by Adolph B. Rice Studio, 21 July 1951 (Rice Collection, Library of Virginia)
Going to School in France or America
Goody Two-Shoes (cover): artist and author unknown, New York, 1888 (text first published London, 1765 as The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes, authorship attributed to Oliver Goldsmith [?]); image by Inductiveload, 22 March 2010
Drugs are a tuition,
and tuition is teaching,
but in French tuer is to kill,
and so in France drugs are killing.
What does it mean to “make a killing”?
It means to make money,
and money is a means
to certain kinds of killing,
as for instance dropping millions of pennies
on someone from a helicopter.
Money can also be used to buy drugs, helicopters,
or to pay for your tuition,
but money, drugs, and killing
are not the sort of pursuits
a person should pursue with his tuition
if he is a student in France or America.
TC: Going to School in France or America, from Airplanes, 1966
A French female violin student wearing high-heel shoes getting spanked with a violin bow by a strict female teacher: photo by Jacques Biederer, Ostra Studio, Paris, 1930s; image by Handcuffed, 7 August 2011
"Two Shoes, Ma'am, Two Shoes": illustration in Goody Two-Shoes: artist and author unknown, New York, 1888 (text first published London, 1765 as The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes, authorship attributed to Oliver Goldsmith[?]); image by Inductiveload, 22 March 2010
"The Spelling Lesson": illustration in Goody Two-Shoes: artist and author unknown, New York, 1888 (text first published London, 1765 as The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes, authorship attributed to Oliver Goldsmith[?]); image by Inductiveload, 22 March 2010
Poem
Blue sky with cumulus congestus: photo by Krzysztof, 2006
Like musical
instruments
Abandoned in a field
The parts of your feelings
Are starting to know a quiet
The pure conversion of your
Life into art seems destined
Never to occur
You don't mind
You feel spiritual and alert
As the air must feel
Turning into sky aloft and blue
You feel like
You'll never feel like touching anything or anyone
Again
And then you do
Abandoned in a field
The parts of your feelings
Are starting to know a quiet
The pure conversion of your
Life into art seems destined
Never to occur
You don't mind
You feel spiritual and alert
As the air must feel
Turning into sky aloft and blue
You feel like
You'll never feel like touching anything or anyone
Again
And then you do
Sky with puffy clouds: photo by imageman, 2006
Como
instrumentos
musicales
abandonados en el campo
las partes de tu sentimiento
se disponen a conocer una quietud
la pura conversión de tu
vida en arte parece destinada
a no suceder nunca
no te importa
te sientes espiritual y alerta
como debe sentirse el aire
al girar en el cielo azul
sientes que
nunca podrás tocar algo o a alguien
de nuevo
y entonces lo haces
abandonados en el campo
las partes de tu sentimiento
se disponen a conocer una quietud
la pura conversión de tu
vida en arte parece destinada
a no suceder nunca
no te importa
te sientes espiritual y alerta
como debe sentirse el aire
al girar en el cielo azul
sientes que
nunca podrás tocar algo o a alguien
de nuevo
y entonces lo haces
TC: Poem (Like musical instruments), from Airplanes, 1966: Spanish translation by Jordi Doce, 2008
Tom Clark, Vence, Alpes-Maritimes, France, 1966
A Crazy American Girl
Nehi Corporation advertisement for Royal Crown Cola: Life, 12 March 1945 (Gallery of Graphic Design)
A Crazy American Girl
Pumped for a rhyming line into air
A football falling through registration,
Here I come: That’s Cathy’s Clown,
A song by Don and Phil in her
Consciousness. And mine. A beverage
Passes between lips, they’re her lips;
I am that beverage. Her Royal Crown
Classes break on the hour
Bar, O falcon of the lecture!
Fall, footballs, through the leaves!
We clown in airs of each other's consciousness:
I bring hers stealthy cigarettes,
Between-halves tears; she brings mine
Contemporary milk of the lectures.
TC: A Crazy American Girl, from Airplanes, 1966
TC: A Crazy American Girl, from Airplanes, 1966
Woman III: Willem de Kooning, 1951-53 (private collection of Steven A. Cohen)
Woman V: Willem de Kooning, 1951-52 (National Gallery of Australia, Canberra)
Junge Frau (bunt) / Young Girl (coloured): Gerhard Richter, 1965, oil on canvas, 80 x 65 cm (Gerhard Richter Art)
Longines Watches advertisement for Longines Watches: Life, 10 October 1936 (Gallery of Graphic Design)
Longines Watches advertisement for Longines Watches: Life, 10 October 1936 (Gallery of Graphic Design)
Don Everly sits laughing at the table while Phil dances with a friend to the jukebox, 1950s: photo by Alamy, c. 1959
Red Grange Field, Wheaton, Illinois: photo by Dhalls, 31 May 2006; image by BKLuis, 8 November 2009
Liggett and Myers Tobacco Company advertisement for Chesterfield Cigarettes: Liberty, 29 November 1936 (Gallery of Graphic Design)
Sandwiches
Posters #25 (Aachen): photo by Manfred Geyer (beauty of all things), 13 May 2013
Listen to the arrows refer to them:
For twenty-six years these
Sandwiches gallop into our lives
Like moss into speeded-up movies,
Vivid and dark in our nude, ample lives.
They've killed the normal clarity of arrows
And given birth to the baby of desire.
I am going to eat you, beautiful
Dark-haired sandwich.
Hello. I am
White Foam, sandwich of the sea -- far from
The earth's tan, glamorous
Sandwich. And now, aloha.
I presided at a "Sandwiches Taste-In".
I painted my ribs with jam
Sandwiches, in the land
Of Mighty Joe Young Sandwiches. But
Let's face the truth: pulling down
A chewed up sandwich still loses its shape.
TC: Sandwiches, from Airplanes, 1966
"Listen to the arrows...": A Cancer Sandwich Taste-In Trance/Mission
#Television trance THE SHINING #Kubrick: image via Shaun Cole @ShaunCole, 17 March 2015
#Television trance POLTERGEIST Hooper: image via Shaun Cole @ShaunCole, 17 March 2015
Debbie Harry was definitely hot in #Videodrome: image via Bradley @BradSabbath, 20 March 2015
Debbie Uno de los personajes de #Videodrome dice: "La televisión es la retina del ojo de la mente".: image via Misifunoski @Misifunoski, 11 February 2015
@malarrassa @NovaJazzCava @SoulSystemdjs la semana de #Videodrome miercoles en el #ateneuCandela y ayer en el SoulPub: image via VideodromeTRS @VideodromeTRS, 13 March 2015
#DavidCronenberg #videodrome #MoveIHaveSeen100Times #OnePerfectShot: image via Uqbar 4 @uqbar42VideodromeTRS @VideodromeTRS, 7 March 2015
@malarrassa @NovaJazzCava @SoulSystemdjs la semana de #Videodrome, lo más duro de James Woods después de Padre de familia: image via Pelicula, peliculas @elpelicultista, 5 February 2015
#Television trance #Cronenberg VIDEODROME: image via Shaun Cole @ShaunCole, 17 March 2015
#VIDEODROME #CRONENBERG: image via Polly Esther @pollyesth, 6 February 2015
#videodrome: image via anton funic @funic, 18 January 2015
sana uzanan diller kopsun! #videodrome #audiencerview: image via Jek Lemin @tolbooy, 15 March 2015
sana uzanan diller kopsun! #videodrome #audiencerview: image via Jek Lemin @tolbooy, 15 March 2015
So #Videodrome finally came to FRUITION...: image via Carolina CHERCREW @jameskwaters, 10 February 2015
Error Number Six
Boy in TV Set, Boston: photo by Arthur Tress (b 1940), 1972, from Dream Collector: 30th Anniversary, 2004
Chasing over more pages
The guards of the castle say
Stick under the roof, stone dogs!
The bird of your hand coughs
In the smooth opening ear
Of my desire in the water.
No matter the guards. When
To be innocent in a chaos
Is chaos in a vast innocence
Under the rooms, will
The treacherous apple eat them?
Rashly as
the group star you are
When you are standing in the water.
Don't know the star of your being
The sound and standing in
But the rock sticks out of the works.
TC: Error Number Six, from Airplanes, 1966
Men gathered on a street in Amman, Jordan: photo by Thomas A. O'Halloran, July 1958 (U.S. News & World Report Photograph Collection, Library of Congress)
An African-American high school girl being educated via television during the period in which the Little Rock, Arkansas schools were closed to avoid integration: photo by Thomas A. O'Halloran, September 1958 (U.S. News and World Report Photograph Collection, Library of Congress)
Presidential Election America. Overview of the Dutch television studio.: photo by Eric Koch / Anefo, 6 November 1968 (Nationaal Archieff)
Poem
Radio Corporation of America advertisement for RCA Victor Color Television: Life, 14 November 1955 (Gallery of Graphic Design)
the tiny new emotions
no doubt left
everything clear in a deceiving light
and the tresses of a beloved
forming a collar that presses
to quell the passion of the blood
the autumn strict of the eye
the plumage of the intellect lies steeped
in feces and blood
o beech, unbind your leaf, for deep
in its yellow
the honeyed lime lies sleeping
and lead shade
seals up the eyelids of the sheep
and the reprieve tolls gluelike
no awakening
now the rich cherry
now all the spring and autumn trees
TC: poem (the tiny new emotions), from Airplanes, 1966
For twenty-six years these
Sandwiches gallop into our lives
Like moss into speeded-up movies,
Vivid and dark in our nude, ample lives.
They've killed the normal clarity of arrows
And given birth to the baby of desire.
I am going to eat you, beautiful
Dark-haired sandwich.
Hello. I am
White Foam, sandwich of the sea -- far from
The earth's tan, glamorous
Sandwich. And now, aloha.
I presided at a "Sandwiches Taste-In".
I painted my ribs with jam
Sandwiches, in the land
Of Mighty Joe Young Sandwiches. But
Let's face the truth: pulling down
A chewed up sandwich still loses its shape.
TC: Sandwiches, from Airplanes, 1966
"Listen to the arrows...": A Cancer Sandwich Taste-In Trance/Mission
#Television trance THE SHINING #Kubrick: image via Shaun Cole @ShaunCole, 17 March 2015
#Television trance POLTERGEIST Hooper: image via Shaun Cole @ShaunCole, 17 March 2015
#Television trance THE STRANGE COLOR OF YOUR BODY'S TEARS [Cattet and Forzani]: image via Shaun Cole @ShaunCole, 17 March 2015
Debbie Harry was definitely hot in #Videodrome: image via Bradley @BradSabbath, 20 March 2015
Debbie Uno de los personajes de #Videodrome dice: "La televisión es la retina del ojo de la mente".: image via Misifunoski @Misifunoski, 11 February 2015
...Wheres Deborah Harry? @LarryFlick: image via Carolina CHERCREW @jameskwaters, 10 February 2015
Vertellerkästen #21: photo by Manfred Geyer (beauty of all things), 14 January 2006
Posters #13 (Bochum): photo by Manfred Geyer (beauty of all things), 4 November 2005
Posters #15 (Bochum): photo by Manfred Geyer (beauty of all things), 4 November 2005
Posters #14 (Bochum): photo by Manfred Geyer (beauty of all things), 4 November 2005
Vertellerkästen #26: photo by Manfred Geyer (beauty of all things), 12 February 2006
Vertellerkästen #21: photo by Manfred Geyer (beauty of all things), 14 January 2006
Posters #13 (Bochum): photo by Manfred Geyer (beauty of all things), 4 November 2005
Posters #15 (Bochum): photo by Manfred Geyer (beauty of all things), 4 November 2005
Posters #14 (Bochum): photo by Manfred Geyer (beauty of all things), 4 November 2005
Vertellerkästen #26: photo by Manfred Geyer (beauty of all things), 12 February 2006
The erupting
cancer death of Barry Convex: still from David Cronenerg's Videodrome (1983): image via Tim Lucas: Reflections on Videodrome, The Criterion Collection, 2004
@malarrassa @NovaJazzCava @SoulSystemdjs la semana de #Videodrome miercoles en el #ateneuCandela y ayer en el SoulPub: image via VideodromeTRS @VideodromeTRS, 13 March 2015
#DavidCronenberg #videodrome #MoveIHaveSeen100Times #OnePerfectShot: image via Uqbar 4 @uqbar42VideodromeTRS @VideodromeTRS, 7 March 2015
@malarrassa @NovaJazzCava @SoulSystemdjs la semana de #Videodrome, lo más duro de James Woods después de Padre de familia: image via Pelicula, peliculas @elpelicultista, 5 February 2015
Is #Cronenberg #Videodrome the first great techno #horror film? #TBT: image via Other Halves @OtherHalvesFilm, 5 February 2015
#Television trance #Cronenberg VIDEODROME: image via Shaun Cole @ShaunCole, 17 March 2015
#VIDEODROME #CRONENBERG: image via Polly Esther @pollyesth, 6 February 2015
#videodrome: image via pink boys @kstodayglow, 28 January 2015
#videodrome: image via anton funic @funic, 18 January 2015
sana uzanan diller kopsun! #videodrome #audiencerview: image via Jek Lemin @tolbooy, 15 March 2015
sana uzanan diller kopsun! #videodrome #audiencerview: image via Jek Lemin @tolbooy, 15 March 2015
So #Videodrome finally came to FRUITION...: image via Carolina CHERCREW @jameskwaters, 10 February 2015
6801: photo by Carlos Rebolledo Fernández, 20 April 2018
6801: photo by Carlos Rebolledo Fernández, 20 April 2018
6801: photo by Carlos Rebolledo Fernández, 20 April 2018
Boy in TV Set, Boston: photo by Arthur Tress (b 1940), 1972, from Dream Collector: 30th Anniversary, 2004
Chasing over more pages
The guards of the castle say
Stick under the roof, stone dogs!
The bird of your hand coughs
In the smooth opening ear
Of my desire in the water.
No matter the guards. When
To be innocent in a chaos
Is chaos in a vast innocence
Under the rooms, will
The treacherous apple eat them?
Rashly as
the group star you are
When you are standing in the water.
Don't know the star of your being
The sound and standing in
But the rock sticks out of the works.
TC: Error Number Six, from Airplanes, 1966
Men gathered on a street in Amman, Jordan: photo by Thomas A. O'Halloran, July 1958 (U.S. News & World Report Photograph Collection, Library of Congress)
An African-American high school girl being educated via television during the period in which the Little Rock, Arkansas schools were closed to avoid integration: photo by Thomas A. O'Halloran, September 1958 (U.S. News and World Report Photograph Collection, Library of Congress)
Presidential Election America. Overview of the Dutch television studio.: photo by Eric Koch / Anefo, 6 November 1968 (Nationaal Archieff)
Untitled [woman watching television, Colorado]: photo by Robert Adams from Summer Nights Walking (2009)
Those little nights | Frydek-Místek [Czech Republic]: photo by Pavel P., 27 March 2018
Radio Corporation of America advertisement for RCA Victor Color Television: Life, 14 November 1955 (Gallery of Graphic Design)
no doubt left
everything clear in a deceiving light
and the tresses of a beloved
forming a collar that presses
to quell the passion of the blood
the autumn strict of the eye
the plumage of the intellect lies steeped
in feces and blood
o beech, unbind your leaf, for deep
in its yellow
the honeyed lime lies sleeping
and lead shade
seals up the eyelids of the sheep
and the reprieve tolls gluelike
no awakening
now the rich cherry
now all the spring and autumn trees
TC: poem (the tiny new emotions), from Airplanes, 1966
Spring and Autumn Trance/Mission High Fidelity Foam Tongue Sandwich
Admiral advertisement for Admiral Televisions with Son-R Remote Control: Life, 15 September 1958 (Gallery of Graphic Design)
General Electric advertisement for General Electric Perfect Color Television: Time, 6 December 1963 (Gallery of Graphic Design)
16
March: people
watch a television broadcasting Japan's Emperor Akihito's televised
address to the nation at an electronics retail store in Tokyo; Japanese
Emperor Akihito said on Wednesday that problems at Japan's
nuclear-power reactors were unpredictable and he was "deeply worried"
following an earthquake he described as "unprecedented in scale". It
was an extraordinarily rare appearance by the emperor and his first
public comments since last week's devastating earthquake and tsunami
that killed thousands of people: photo by Issei Kato/Reuters. 16 March 2011
Still from White Noise, dir. Geoffrey Sax 2005
Still from White Noise, dir. Geoffrey Sax 2005
Still from White Noise, dir. Geoffrey Sax 2005
True Color: Television of Tomorrow: Imagine a Bob Hope Sandwich Under a Watchful Sparton Cosmic Eye In Your Living Room In a Rapidly Vanishing Distant Galaxy
Radio Listeners' Guide and Call Book, Volume 3, Number 2, November 1928: cover art showing imagined future of television: image by Swtpc, July 2008
National Broadcasting Company advertisement for NBC Television Network: Time, 13 November 1944 (Gallery of Graphic Design)
Belmont Television Corp. advertisement for Belmont Televisions: Life, 12 March 1945 (Gallery of Graphic Design)
Sylvania Electric Products Corp. advertisement for Sylvania Halolight Television: Life, 13 October 1952 (Gallery of Graphic Design)
Admiral advertisement for Admiral Television: Saturday Evening Post, 3 September 1955 (Gallery of Graphic Design)
Sylvania Electric Products Inc. advertisement for Sylvania Big Screen Console Televisions: Life, 9 September 1957 (Gallery of Graphic Design)
Sparton Radio-Television advertisement for Sparton Cosmic Eye Televisions: Life, 17 June 1953 (Gallery of Graphic Design)
5 comments:
Everly Bros: Cathy's Clown (live 1960)
The wee book Airplanes was strictly cottage production, as of earlier sort of society technology, hand cranked out on very messy mimeo machine, in closeted depths of night hard by the north sea - excellent paper airplane flying weather
1966 was a top TC poem year!
Thanks Hilton. Il miglior fabbro !
Probably, as eleventh hour acts of fondness toward one's long forgotten darlings is just the sort of thing one might expect out of pretty much any marginalised hasbeen/neverwas old poet who won't get the message and go away peacefully, it shouldn't be too surprising that, in very slowly typing these up, crookt neck comically bent over ancient hoary mildewed staple-rusted copy dredg'd from davy jones locker, and still almost virginally unpublished since the original print run of Oh, perhaps 27 copes, I kind of liked the poems myself, and felt *yet again* a pang that I had not died, or at least quit when I was still almost ahead.
In my top Poem year!
["still almost virginally..." Hmm. Wasn't there a movie, "The 80 Year Old Still Almost Virgin"?]
oh..! bellos poemas Tom sobre todo me encanta..."como instrumentos musicales" !!
Sandra,
Ese poema te ha estado esperando todos estos años.
¡Mi mejor lector!
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