for Erich and Patricia
List of things to
banish
Can include words,
people, theoretical apparatuses
Can take the form of a
grocery list, a scientific experiment, or a manifesto
Can read like a
personal ad of unwanting
Can summon aid to help
with banishing
Can be uncertain of
what will remain
Can have no positive
mission statement
Can be written in a
language other than language
Can circulate amongst
FRIENDS ONLY
Can evade being
imagined, written, embodied, archived
Can go like this
Can make itself
irrelevant
Can include buildings,
brushstrokes, and other abominations
Can mean my way of life
is unlivable
Can mean my life is as
yet unlived
Can mean I must become
a menace to my enemies
Can undo futurity
forever in favor of *******
Can remake futurity
into someone who doesn’t recognize herself
Can punctuate the
present like a cup of coffee or a Monday
Can be dreamed up and
shot down and elongated
Can tell us something
Can include forms and
fantasies, even the ones getting us by
Can instigate an
interregnum
Can be unfinished
Can include hope
hopefully
Can be blank
But don’t kid yourself
It isn’t
And it can’t include
History