Klaimco: June 2020

6/09/20, 04:11am Eastern Standard Time
Klaimco,

‘ Noon-of-Nite ’

1,
someone somewhere
deep in slumber
stumbled into a compound-world unfurling happened/happening
inside Roam or Riodejaneiro or SF or BC or The NL or even Saint George Island...
all complete with
interactive view
while dreaming simply of:
a flooded surface
a thin layer of clay
wind
ice floes
and warming temperatures
alsoknownas the coming of a new brand new day.

2,
when someone was just a young urchin
they apprenticed at an old machinist’s workshop
sweeping
sweeping
sweeping
sweeping
curlicues of metal, wood, and plastic
swarf all day
and
swarf all night
they were small and nimble and interested and always observing:

3,
back then
someone else was was living on the 0ther-Side-of-Town (0ST)
in a house where every object
that could be
was nested like матрёшка
and every other object was stacked
from floor to ceiling in shaker-style-wooden-oval-boxes
made of pine, and maple, and occasionally birch
protecting things like spices and electronics,
and software and shoelaces, business cards and loose change,
and a small inherited collection of fragments of comets,
and meteorites:

4,
just now
the dreamer is receiving a transmission
from someone’s neighbor claiming
to have answered a phone that was not ringing
only to find a voice on the other
end of the line
saying things like:
“सत्त्व gathers the means of life;
the means of life don’t gather सत्त्व”
and, “The secret of improved plant breeding,
apart from scientific knowledge, is love…
so be like Luther Burbank!”

5,
the voice was recommending
various teas and brands of fountain pens
including one
of rose-hips, hibiscus, orange peel, spearmint, cinnamon, and lemongrass
at the first signs of the common cold
before giving a lengthy review of the 1998 hit Serbian film
Црна мачка, бели мачор:

6,
elsewhere
historians were claiming
to have just now discovered
that dawn is an e-x-t-r-a elastic time
especially for those archaeologists interested
in sensation
(as in: not-symbolism
and as in: not all works can be shown on the surface)
and
that the ancient grooves
worn well into the ground
which gave rise to
pony-drawn wooden railways
used in mining operations
before iron plated wood was brought in
(in order to reduce that horse-drawn friction)
before wrought iron replaced the wood
and before steel replaced the wrought iron
all pertained somehow to the natural casting of
footprints on the roofs of mines and caves:

7,
These rectangles show pictographic symbols
once stored in a southern vault
that record and retell important stories

likewise
or unlikewise
breathing and breath
were some of the most important tools
for a storyteller
and in a past life
yet another somebody was
a towering voice in the world of radio dramas
during the golden age of 0ld-Time-Radio (0TR)
this meant they had
mastered the art of combination
of dramatic conventions & written texts
of gestures & documentation
and of (panto)mime & memory
but nobody around was wiser
and at home on the refrigerator
the only newspaper clipping pinned up read:

8,
Dear Reader,
the coldest natural temperature
ever known on earth
was recorded today at a Soviet Research base (Vostok Station)
in the Antarctic
at 2:45am on July 21, 1983
the thermometer read:
-89.2° C
-128.6° F
184.0 °K

back 0n-the-Air (0A)
was it the anticipation of an incoming a tele-presence
that meant that operators were standing by
but no one was calling in?
say:
what gives?

9,
in what lies ahead
someone from 0ut-of-Town (0T)
just looking to pass the time
will wander
to the way-way-way-back of the science fiction section
of a local library branch only to pull from the shelf
a hardcover first edition copy
of Robert Silverberg’s 1969
The Calibrated Alligator and 0ther Science Fiction Stories

out from deep within the b00k will fall
the following rapidly written
note to self on pale green college ruled index card:
(front)
16 shovels make a full wheelbarrow
6 wheelbarrow comprise a cubic yard
(back)
1/2 cup sugar
fine zest of 2 lemons
1/2 cup fresh lemon juice
1/4 cup 0range Blossom Water (0BW)
2 tbsp rose water
3/4 cup butter or vegetable oil
1 can sweetened condensed or coconut milk
2 1⁄2 cups fine semolina
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 large eggs
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp kosher salt
if dreams are really strong yet tender
like tightrope walkers going in reverse
then
people:
be kind!
keep the electrons flowing!

10,
a stranger
could refer to a stray leaf
floating in a cup of tea
a hard soul melting
a moment of vision driven by the audible
or the inaudible
a phenomenal atmosphere
or a spider web washing away in a storm:

11,
see also:
our conjunction
and how to cure numbnessssssssssssssssssssss

anticon · Dosh - "I Think I'm Getting Married" (2004)

,
I S, B N, V S,”‘

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