עַד־מָתַי תִּתְחַמָּקִין הַבַּת הַשּׁוֹבֵבָה כִּי־בָרָא יהוה חֲדָשָׁה בָּאָרֶץ נְקֵבָה תְּסוֹבֵב גָּבֶר

Book One

§ 1.1. Don’t know never knew never will a figure approaches turn and pivot beneath purple vaults of sky | § 1.2. The glittering labyrinth beckons gray affection don’t know never knew never will | § 1.3. It kissed me with its drunken lips the glittering labyrinth beckons sedition can it permeate solitary | § 1.4. The memory of that impotence left me pining for more to execute so shrill a tome prayer | § 1.5. How speak without the names of things how connect one thing to another | § 2.1. I saw it once how speak without the names of things I’ve been carousing | § 2.2. More than everywhere try to seek to explain this process nadir approaches zenith | § 2.3. Myself discovered it cleaved the me from it rhapsodies implicit face first into the gray ash | § 2.4. Recalled contemplation infected begging infinite pull of gravitational fall | § 2.5. Zygote fetus infant adolescence adulthood senescence death such sharp stillness | § 2.6. My arms it shears the spine clean in two innumerable thin shivers of light | § 2.7. Electronic the the tease could to impose a beginning a fistulous wave of globular light | § 3.1. Nadir approaches zenith: out of this black heart pluck a knife, the ships, the hurricanes | § 3.2. Not after out to as no the it care for it out of this black heart pluck a knife I was the corpse | § 3.3. Could I have been born of such cunt-cocked bones? | § 3.4. Could lurid safe order pitiless? | § 3.5. I saw it once; it kissed me with its drunken lips; it howled between my teeth; let it slip from the memory.

Book Two

§ 1.1. The expedients | § 1.2. I said and | § 1.3. Their frozen shadows clicked and clattered on the sidewalk like smooth thin-cut slates | § 1.4. I said this bitternes was it then or was it some other time and what was it | § 1.5. I shall begin at the end sperm ovum zygote fetus infant adolescence adulthood senescence death | § 1.6. I flew too close my life my future annoying jiggerbug | § 1.7. I conceive a goal futile to aspire to work in the flesh something radiant hidden there | § 2.1. And the end the whole worthwhile a goal futile to aspire to | § 2.2. I set to work to form spiteful envy in its presence | § 2.3. To patronize unkind weak I restrict it I admit skill to enhance it | § 2.4. The ephemeral possession I smelled it commute it sell it | § 2.5. Chevron tremors in bluster on the banyan killing it pregnantly | § 3.1. Able to play the game on my own the lavish piffle. | § 3.2. I feel sure in a short time scornfully conceived the tubercle is all prenatal | § 3.3. I expound unless language has become so flaccid that being on occasion patronized begins to equal death for the sake of an ideal | § 3.4. Open my initiation took place could I have been born of such cunt-cocked bones | § 3.5. It all comes back to me now it never comes back innumerable thin shivers of light to define myself | § 3.6. I had written many I saw it once what the eye cannot light the mind darkens| § 3.7. I should think I might be made to jack off cheaply.

Book Three

§ 1.1. Let it slip from the memory determined to be what hitherto had only been | § 1.2. Let it slip from the memory it ended never incarcerated elitist the veins I was beginning to hold war | § 1.3. Let it slip from the memory good advice I might do to bring it across the line break that vacancy unlikely speak little | § 1.4. Let it slip from the memory prudence is a vice the most dangerous nourishment | § 1.5. Let it slip from the memory talking to it the glittering labyrinth beckons | § 2.1. What the eye cannot light the mind darkens ravaged with hunger | § 2.2. What the eye cannot light the mind darkens with long arguments my own worries | § 2.3. What the eye cannot light the mind darkens the clandestine resolution I skittered towards it | § 2.4. What the eye cannot light the mind darkens I glanced at it the author of my woe | § 2.5. What the eye cannot light the mind darkens for the soul’s lips magic stolen | § 2.6. What the eye cannot light the mind darkens to manipulate space of me wheeled out cantabile | § 2.7. What the eye cannot light the mind darkens so boring the dangling glance | § 3.1. It howled between my teeth I couldn’t climb whip the immediate appearance | § 3.2. It howled between my teeth cherry trees in blossom on the banks | § 3.3. It howled between my teeth discouragement upon the mind my own good in fact | § 3.4. It howled between my teeth get me out of that secret breathe that sense contempt | § 3.5. It howled between my teeth freely lurid safe prophecy pitiless invulnerable.

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— G. Stein, How to Write

Austin, New York, Paris, Philadelphia. 1989–1998. Towards a Schizomythology of Ritual, Volume One.