Go ah ah tell us where we're at

or go direct

All Starlings Go to Hell

Starlings dick around the sky.

ELO 8

the even darker discontinuities of modern whom literally organized or in void of the designated reality distance between words and things disappear technology as some of the more recent ideas about the adjectives of these works antirepresentationailty terms from of course and gives us their work let’s say fidget patchwork screenshot as a discourse these are the attributes while identifying apprehension as a state of edge to understand the outset role as an apparatus role to link technology as we have to situated here reminds to the ideological public relations up to the ‘60s abandonment of pragmatic at the same time revised modes a similar set with respect networks as the new principle media programing shifts of production models discontinued flexible transition origins first silicon markets and a new set simultaneously framework also structural capital state labor neo post reimagining interface toward dereg automony from tenure away from the market itself as a sole marker concept for example according to social networking looking at more of its relationship to the network redefining the individual collective broken mirror not surprisingly as a communication qualities of ontological coordinates of the rationalization of contemporary paradigm of solely as a means of make of modes of social enduring expressions as agents use of the screen appear face to doesn’t know something is going on of course the mirror still whether they realize it to actually prevent the object of deluded participant yet instead of what is it but gradual missing double allusion part of the joke to pretend the charade if both deceiving me to preserve the even now but we really don’t know the mirror isn’t there more seriously to this dynamic to deceive and slaughter with the sound of its own making as interpretted where he literally type auction remians the true state of perpetual ethernet check begins over the essential component requiring the probably asking motive when the pieces substantial desire to ownership habit to extend the perpetuity this where she permanent network semi always present thank

break

ELO 7

no longer the subject

work in dreams

better the range of imagery

to our current psychosocial moment

and general athleticism

defining otter concept

legitimation reflective self

determining subject in the back of a rather long queue

inspired by rapid overshadowed darker

growing high culture subjectivity

germaine to 20th c thot

ELO 6

material to open it up

almost a musical score

in the sense of watching

gestures of coding

and what i’m beginning to call

the typographic in the realm

does define what reading is

now we’re talking formalism

ELO 5

all my life thinking in

fiber batter mower

are are most

wading the process

ELO 4

i wrote a little engine

to create space handles timing

equally valid edition of text

the spacial spacing reminds

ELO_AI dispatch 3: how this piece works / where you are an avatar

how it works

it worse

do the interrupt way

electronic literature collection 2

non-eng e-lit

samplying and wreading

analogic to digital

influence of videogrames [Golpe de gracia, 2006, jaime alejandro rodriguez]

how this piece works

where you are an avatar

in rivers of words

in a book machine

which is a “ “

movement sensors and the reading process

old and handmade

eros and caos incredible reading

collaborative texts inside this piece

growing actually from time to time

the idea of navigating

you are going to live an experience very close to death

dying almost dying

listen to terrible things

you want to leave this world

you will remember what you did

ELO_AI dispatch 2: we are running out

this is happening by itself

always in my talks

poetry comes from a lack of understanding

but i do under
stand

so we can look the lyric

we are running out

i’m not conditioned to interrupt

i don’t think i’ve ever made a piece with an ending

go ahead and leave

lyric on the dead what do we do with these fragments

code architectures that

drag and drop authentic reality software

some of our later versions

i like to hand code

try to do that myself

we create the logic

[link removed]

are you ok for tech

a bit late for try

or a secondary monitor

getting over text

ok for text

reorient screen

ELO_AI dispatch 1: nothing signals

the heart/brain has its own little brain/heart

series of arrays being juggled in space

every 11 seconds

the scene will never end

the appendage that we are

nothing signals

acliptic

they get old, they smell bad

i saw you squirm so i turned it off

mentabolism

ethical probe

ethical speak

don’t think we make anything

residue of book culture

graph paper click-to

tangible user interface

lang is act

die in harmony

flicker probes

we feed ourselves with flesh from animal machines

it’s probably a machine

wet mirror of embodied deception

perforations

I'm a live blog sorta

Coming soon! A sorta live blog from the ELO_AI conference!

genre's an adjective

, right?

last thought, last thought

I liked the Olympics.

where have I been

where have you been etc.

Loneliness

It'll get you in the bathroom of a Texaco.

RIP Mark Linkous

You're a Good Skate,

last night

my spidey senses were tingling. were yours?

asterisk

Meaning

: the character * used in printing or writing as a reference mark, as an indication of the omission of letters or words, to denote a hypothetical or unattested linguistic form, or for various arbitrary meanings

Dick Button

O Bill Callahan!

-ATION

"It can change in shape or form but never change in size."

I went to see Soula,

I went to see Soula,
a shoe store in Park Slope, Brooklyn. It was snowy
outside; the shoe clerk made a cutthroat motion:

READINGS

DON’T TELL HER (YOU’RE BOUND) TO BE SATISFIED!!

by TERESA!!!

AND SHE SAYS:

DON’T CLAIM TO BE HAPPY AT PROSPERITY NIGHT

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DON’T LET DISTANCE HAVE SPELLS

Am I flarf?

A thoughtful editor just wrote to say he almost wants to publish my poem "Occasionally Yours." Of course I wish he'd go on his nerve and publish the poem, but I appreciate his candor in no-thanksing like this (linebreaks mine):

it was a surpirse

to read, and is more

worthwhile than usual

Flarf

influenced stuff, and it seems somehow

involved with itself, which

Flarf

poetry has veered from

and landed itself

in a dead-end over; but

my feeling is that

there is not enough at stake

behind this involvement

in this poem.

And here's my answer song:

Everything is at stake.

I want to see the Jersey Shore

Only 1 hr 32 min!

I went to see Cog & Pearl

Were there beautiful things? There were beautiful things! Like these hand soaps.



And this fortune teller. My fortune teller said, "Make a wish for someone else."



Shara Porter, you're a heart breaker. One day I'll adopt one of your hand printed fine found objects.

Until then.

xox,
Benmina Taquito

I went to see "Flooded McDonald's"

... and "The Financial Crisis" and "Burning Car." You can watch short clips of all three here and read more about FMcD at the Danish art collective Superflex's website.

One-Night Stand

In these trying times, it's clear how white, academic men will survive:
by hiring each other.

Eileen Myles

At the Belladonna conference I attended a panel. The panel was well-attended, seats were taken, attendees included many artists whose aesthetics I admire. After the panel started, Eileen Myles entered the room. I had never seen Eileen Myles in person. I had never seen Eileen Myles in person, my companion said, "Eileen Myles is so cool." Seats were taken. Eileen Myles sat down on the floor. She looked so cool. She looked so cool and at ease. Of the cool and at ease people I've seen, she is one of the most.

Admiration for Eileen Myles!

Lobsters

"They're alive when you kill it."

Oh it's such a perfect day...

Can you spare a dollar? Not one of you motherfuckers is happy.
--man on 6th Ave, Manhattan

Let us distinguish between life is play and life is a play.

today in words & numbers

oh two oh one two oh one oh

Man, when's Jane Dark gonna write a poetry book?

The Collected Poems of Benmina Taquito

Acceptance Speech
All Angels Are Nine
Brown Would Be Ashamed of Me
Don’t Talk to Me Like That
Five Poems
Hereby Agreed
Hot Fudge Brownie Sundae
I Went to See Jersey Shore
In Norse souls of warriors
Occasionally Yours
Old Men and Andy Dick
Proustian Sensibilities
Shoulda Seen Me in the Aughties
You’re Just Saying Subtext out Loud

Both in equal parts...

"Both in equal parts are welcome
To come along
I'm inviting everyone"
- Joanna Newsom

A crowded train

is no excuse
for unlawful
sexual conduct

B&W Artists I Love

Joan Didion, essayist



Georgia O'Keefe, painter



Mina Loy, poet

Hereby Agreed

If any provision of this Agreement or the application to intend that any provision to any person or of any circumstance that renders it enforceable is determined to be invalid or then such provision shall not affect any other provision of this Agreement or the person or application of such provision to any other determination all of which other in full force and or others effect. The parties provisions shall remain unenforceable, if this Agreement circumstance, is susceptible to two or more constructions, one of which would render the enforceable provision and the other of which would render the provision unenforceable, then any of the provision shall be given the meaning.

words on the street

via radio:

...drink one half your weight in ounces a day...

In Norse souls of warriors,

In Norse souls of warriors, their evenings lustily feasting immune and quaffing to a magnificent palace, nobly from battle were where they spent their mythology, the days fighting who died for diversion lasting in injury, and on freshly killed boar brought the free-flowing mead.

Free the Kitchen Carts

Everyone in Brooklyn is throwing away IKEA kitchen carts:

On the occasion of my first pub...

I just learned via Ron Silliman's blog that my poems have been published in TITS: A 24-Hour Journal of Poetry and Poetics. Here is the blurb from Silliman's Blog:

Tits: A 24-Hour Journal of Poetry and Poetics, no location given, Dec. 16-17, 2009. Includes Buck Downs, Theodora Danylevich, Tom Raworth, Lacey Hunter, Rod Smith, Giles Goodland, William Howe, J.E. Kielsgard, Catherine Daly, Lauren Bender, Jordan Davis, Ethan Louis Edwards, Kevin Thurston, Tom Orange, Edwin Torres, Amy King, Tim Atkins, Benmina Taquito, Dana Ward, K. Silem Mohammad, Juliet Cook, Benjamin Friedlander, Chris Funkhouser, Josh Staley, Justin Katko, James Wagner, Mel Nichols, R. Mutt

I'm so excited to be published alongside Rod Smith, Tom Raworth, K. Silem Mohammad, Justin Katko, et al...! I think I'll check my mailbox right now to see if the issue has arrived.

Greetings via Mina Loy

LOVE the hideous in order to find the sublime core of it.