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Well Cats Now We Change Our Tune

from Words and Silences by Brian Harnetty

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Well, Cats, Now We Change Our Tune
Merton Archive Tape 214-03

Well, cats, now we change our tune, and we come to the poems, we come to the poetries.

It has occurred to me that it would be worthwhile to study intonation in speech and to study the whole question of linguistics, and that’s just by the way, to perhaps make a tape in which all the intonations are unfamiliar. In which I intone things in an unfamiliar, unacceptable way. The whole question of intonation comes up with tape. However, put it aside at the moment, no question of intonation arises here. Simply verse. Verse card. One should write verse cards. Interminable verse cards for the millenium. Here is a verse card for the oxygen millenium, to be sold in hospitals.

This probably wouldn’t be part of the same poem:
Weary the way home
Cold birch bark and fires and Christmas acres
Cold age of lake and loom
And split skin scars goes Ivy boy at last to the arc, light, and a true teacher to tell his split second lie

Further notes:
Sign on the dome
Expect thy next tread
Don’t tread on a marine
Spinners, fire cleaners, torching it up until they drop from third floor windows
Essence travels red skin splash, all over a city block
Spinners, spillers, fire take over
Rajah spillway, sense of flame floods manic thermal building place
Spanners, winners
Come red-eyed cleaners, wet-skinned gunners, and rapid-engine waterman fillers

You wishful armed, you soft black-eyed think, you gentle little barrel, I wish you, glasses and all

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from Words and Silences, released October 7, 2022

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Brian Harnetty Columbus, Ohio

Interdisciplinary artist using sound and listening to foster social change. Recordings on Winesap, Karl, Dust-to-Digital, Atavistic, and Scioto Records.

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