cans with labels

 

(multiplicity)


When shopping at the bodega, she


        [ views cans with labels— ]


and though she's aware of her preferences, she stays mindful of the fact that a label should not be imputed as the reality of the thing itself.


(explore)


(continue multiplicity)


Sitting before towers of labels, in the dimly lit mini-mart, she is


        [ instantaneously transported ]


to a group of tourists and schoolchildren roaming the Duomo in Milano.


                                                                                            (Duomo in Milano)


A chorus of soft swells spring forth so spontaneously from their umbilicus mouths as they wander


                                                               (amazing labyrinths of illumination—)


« their pliant bodies form the church’s interior— »


(The Story of Being Invisible)


        [ exclamations exhaled ]


                                                                                                           [no/form].



(group unison—soft—delicate)


O!


(continue multiplicity)


Spread in waves, skimming off one mass of confessing cells, to a mass of children, to the monks’


        [ harmonious patterns of sound non-abiding. ]


                                (Space in the easterly direction is incalculable, is it not?)

(explore)



(continue multiplicity)


The


        [ instability of her vibrating body ]


and the cash register


(zoom in with chorus)


        [ calculate her debt. ]


(continue)


On the line


        [ she breaks into smaller selves ]


                                                                                                                (cells)


sub-divides. Online


        [ she searches ]


                                                                                                (in cyberspace.)

(explore)


Whether born from egg or moisture, she is a sentient being, not abiding in sound, odor, taste, touch or conceptions. Her limited information filtered into consciousness as spatial-temporal morphology


        [ or harmonics. ]


This is how she resonates as she reaches into her pocket to search for the change to


        [ pay for labels ]


she'll take with her.


I’ll take it.


(lightning, spark, flash—sudden focus)


        [ This is how her sound ]


fits into the


        [ geometry of bounded systems, ]

        [ into groceries. ]


This is how she subdues her thoughts.


(return to multiplicity)


Although the system is


                        wildly unstable


and might


                        break apart


at this moment,


        [ this moment— ]


                                                                                     (she is in the Duomo—


                                                                                                  she is online—


                                                                                                 she is on line—


                                                                                      she is a praying monk,


                                              prostrating himself before the God he adores—)


she is


                        transmitting sequences


presently to the Duomo that are passing


        [ through the resonance of tourists ]


                                                                                                      (she is one),


bouncing off a child


                                                                                               (yes, she is one)

                                                                                                      (a vibration)


and through the monks' vocal cords,


a synchronicity of consciousness—


        « [ the coins clinking, ] »


(Heads or Tails)


        [ passing through hands, ]


        « [ time, space, … »


        karmic debt, labels, cans, yes, ]


(group unison—soft—delicate)


« … hearing these passages of moment, »


(Intergalactic Archeologists)


        [ of music … ]


yes.


        [ AH! ]


(explore)

for labels