Sous Rature

Kyle Schlesinger

 

 

 

LETTERS FOR THE LETTERS OF CLYFFORD STILL

 

Anticipation myself
Flight of successful.

Look,
Are shrewd

Sensitive
Tough.

Businessmen
Dabble

Intelligence,
Closed

Depleted in,
For afternoon upon.

Good
Its without

With—
Feeling following

Conversational
Insults implied

Life indifference.
Of reactions involved

Residue roundtable.
Such hatred,

Artists would
Publicly focus

(please be)
Pertinent

Of defenses
Of confused

Is waiting until willing.
Escapes always

Public flower from down
Professionals, students, theologians.

To think brawl should
Rejects responsibility

Single of fine rolls
Paper dig smear.

Curator
Critics flunky would

Accidentally stumble
In for "Clyff, O.K.

Picture made gesture
Respect public will whole."

Canvas blank fabric
From factory not

Years would
Canvas.

That is, wouldn't scholar.
Ascendancy

Clean implication
From proof work proven.

Study.
Oversimplify.

This important preliminary
Knowledge.

Second would interesting
Misinformed

Different, contempt
Cross-section

Different.
Was collection without quality included?

"Reactionary?"
Selection in off fully on merits demonstrated.

Modernist without it.
Strictly gallery.

Such selfish with fashion fads
Not worthy.

Rejected
Insisted

Directly.
Interpretations galleries sociologists'

Categories 
Glazed said "if"

Front of Cedar Bar. 
Disappeared through.

I long cool.
Reaction always

Nearing fifty.
Of work—

Boredom.
Seeing

The questions
Assaults,

Ultimate.
Incorporations earliest

Which lift?
Of social culture found

Cleanest
Most civilized

Following
Indulged.

Citizens intolerable
Hypocrisies for—

For contribution
Row handles slot

The manikin's laboratory exploration.
Carcasses lifelike

Positions from
From horror parlor crudely

Statuary rapport with living recalls.
Such grisly memories

Welfare of group.
Wooden grins—

Sphinxlike collector responsibility.
Challenged feel if field feeling

Knowing yours added should
Paintings if life allowed.

Purchase believe
Continue.

If justified to architecture
Jaded should

Into amenities
Paradoxical smile.

Unreticient couple
Girls for females

From Eastern.
Retired tears

Resentment with
Qualification.

Will Still,
Well how

Could I?
Anticipation myself

Flight of successful,
Experiences several

Permit confidence for.
Appointment

Words admire
Loss

Conceit
Finding needles

Rails.

 

 

 
 

 

 


This poem first appeared in Transient Views (2001), a film by Terry Cuddy.

 

 

 

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