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All MyEggs Are

Broken

Michael Basinski

BlazeVOX [books]

Buffalo, New York


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All My Eggs Are Broken by Michael Basinski

Copyright 2007

Published by BlazeVOX [books]

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced withoutthe publishers written permission, except for brief quotations in reviews.

Printed in the United States of America

Book design by Geoffrey Gatza

First Edition

ISBN: 1-934289-31-0 ISBN 13: 978-1-934289-31-0Library of Congress Control Number :

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For Dee

Wendy and Mari Blish belovved Swim swans swens Knots

entwine Fingers vow Necks More of bathing with Nut Blush

More touch than torch But torch too Toe mingle twine as fingers

ming Nile as fish Nike Weave vows as seams As vowels ring

Rings too our fish and fingers Two waves swims in water More than

water frogfishes and fish Oz Wish finghers in Nuts shrine More

than bathing witch the fingers Pine fish pixies More cutecumbers

and toes May toes Princess frogfigs figs in spoons More than the

possible outside Possible inside meeve ever more than cups Fush

foosh Fash fis figs fing Fis fing rings Ablush Ur us


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Contents

..............................................................................................13Songs of the Night...............................................................................27

Heart and Stomach..............................................................................45

All My Eggs Are Broken.......................................................................51

Lines Concerning Magic Mice...............................................................57

Homage to Hedgehog Mushrooms........................................................59

poems that mirror themess of mice .....................................................65

All Dwell In Frogs ................................................................................ 71

MoistSqueetoes ................................................................................... 81

Come See the Elephant Pee..................................................................89

Remembering a Face in Five Breaths ...................................................113

INSECT.............................................................................................115

39 Different Words For Snow .............................................................117

The Story of O...................................................................................121


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Improvise.

The poem and poems arise from my reading of theMedical Museums section

on: Thee Heart and Stomach. Once upon a time, Medical Doctors discovered

what they thought were stones in the hearts of the deceased. They did notknow what they were. A heart full of stones seemed like a grand place for

poetry. (Somewhere through the poem I had a conversation with Christi

Brown at Rust Belt Books. She told me about Monarch butterflies, butterfly

migration and their relation to milkweed. The milkweed and their seeds fall

into the work from that conversation. If this poems were found in an old barn

some of it would have fallen away or rotted or been forgotten[ ], some of it

would be a beautifully broken memory and some of the poem composed of

sound scapes and various other developing or embalmed literary devise

(symbols, visuals etc.). fishfish ish about the writing of the peom. A wen is a

cyst(cistern


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Wen the pie was openedThe birds began to sing

Amun som Teartured papears; Coptic Cup veffel the flowollowing, so called

Open Pies; purfurescented in the Totality of their Incomprehensible

Incompleteness. Thee seam to Rung together the Meowdical Musemums ofthe 16

thmilkweed (Centcherries Frogmented with non-fragmented

trainjectories) of the many Hands Held in the many Nhight of our

Paleoalphabetic August of Wishings and Whisperings; Tree Witches; early

translationary margarinalia and ready improvisationaland otherbowls

swim withinFlo Spi iikes of Feburary

Fungi Inside

You Mayspeye

Mo

thi[ ]that bees for sweet

bor[ ]e[ ]

memb [ ]mily [ ]bu

memb [ ]mily [ ]bu

[]gu[ ]voin in[ ]

i ni n iei L

v-v-v eee eeeeel c[ ][Refers to thee psychological structure manifested by the emptiness dark mutilations of flesh by the Nuns

of the Absent Heart; Probably pronounced verberus? a supposition of thee witches] ate[ ][ ]oup[ ] glay [ ] pling

ells[ ] Ltiss leyeze [ ] nnellline (refers to the circular tigers surrounding the upper thighs of Aphrodite the witches)la [ ]ca[ ] un Mayoon[ ] issed

phlate [probably refers to a foreign word, an unknown, unseen, prior, has light opened the poem upon itlike a butterfly seeking the witches]

ffec [ ]plasmaids oteens [ ]

on [ ]hum[ ] emb [ ] kidney

currents chestnuts

an stol the witches[ ]rrrrrrr forms of birdfish K

oves uc ing fuf uch

uc ut Ur Urs

ual lux rubs ou ufed

ru uruins lu cu lufush lude ut ufmuf ubs

turue u uttuffed

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HOT CROSS BUNS

According to the medical museum the heart formutations fometimes contains

little bones or bonbons and mysterious hard bodies or hard candies; the heart cannot

be trusted with words; Platerus found a bone in the middle of the platypus heart (itwas not an arrow or arrow head), it was aniinvisible worm (the vulvee TV is opem a

butterfly, the pennis is not and is the tail of an eastern pond turtle with yellow

markings upon it thee thee witches clinch churches) when diffected difference parts

sandy differences tunes up one stone was the head of a chicken; to hear wash up upon

the beach the head pointed towards winterpin, his heart needed no plow, no salt (no

salter, that is)(no salt, no fat, nothing too silly, nothing too much like

fundamentalism). Contentment was a whiskey window that opond a door, small is

fine, no fire please ; outside was the snow fell like peanuts, or leaves which she

caught in her mouth in their descent esophagus. Elephant esophagus. leaving

In the morning the lustore in the corn she wore a black dressOf birds Sing the last time

When I think of how I she visited a dream

I[ ] how I

I twist

[ ] and turn Nocturn

Yellow when you came in [ ] the morning

there is a spider built a web in the corner

[ ] of the limacine (lionized milk it

wasnt on the radio, the salt on her black dress small yellow flowersshe ordered sturgeon and nibblettes

I cut my chin (Colgate and Gillette)((

I Tristan and Isolde))

Shavin[ ] two hearts can not touch (and I bled red

[through the shower curtain]

In their flesh[ ]

like fingers a window cut my neck

dance across the tre bells of a windew when bells were feet

In the morning lust of letterbells of birds singing in pine trees

Of black birds in icesing lusty birds are letters I at bath bells[desire for the stillness of desire in the quiet

Between the air I breathe for stillness

i wish inlit which I place a finger

CW unlit cigaretteTwist and Shoutmy fingers web clear the weteye of a fish gone on singing

fish songs swim forever fesh fish fishing met )finishing

When they opened his heartthey found aDairy Queen

a used car lot,


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on the corner by the 7/11

an upholstery store and plans to build

a Targetnext

toHollywood Video

[ ]

in his right ventriclethree oblong ftones

as big as peas, pens

colored as embers would be coloured

like when his city was burned

weighing a spoone

[ ]

each of your valentine fingers

[the tips burned the jam burned]

ushed blackberry jelly redemption

into my soft liverlal er izo tems

downy hairs and milk juice

oro ob ong ooo

n the heart swam silver and gold minnows sleep

with sleepsliver black eyes I sleep above the water

through her long letters she looked out

The Lone Ranger

Away---

sheer sliver

blizzard of soundtuft of

uzari Jinn

desgiucouzarin Jinn

syrioJinnogenin

xysmaloJinn

in her letters to him were silverfish

eating slowly his hands has paper walls

Well she looked at me, and I, I could seeThat before too long I'd fall in love with her.

She wouldn't dance with another

Whooh

WhUUUUUUUUUUh

Who-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-h

swam the fingers of swans spread

the genii of Julys soft alphabettur cup o

theletter O Iwish I O

my embraced light of my darkness


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by o

rolling down the hill intoe Cayuga Creek

they are not bullets Nuts ballerinasshe is the shape of your heart

the nights milkwee

the way she curves the way she is as a stone

not a bullet, lip, or horseshoe knot a nok

she is a sheet of paper

the curve of a swans wave

as a bed n breakfast in blossom a bed in bloom

with insects singing all at once and alone

understandable and not understandable

and full of animals not seen eating insects

she might be that they are bats

are the stones found in his heart

some of them in your heart

they remain in the cavities and do not hunt

moles and mice only only birds and singing insects

bride the melodrama of seacluded crayfish

water spiders across the halter top of the water

o

each house has within it a marble

so she is with her heart someplace

a marble in a crystal candy dishexcavated after falling from a purse

in Petra in a Paris evacuated

it has been a long time ago

they mind as well be the marbles in his heart

for lack of any better word

they are not shoes or mermaids oor memories

hot round fish, perfectly round held them a gun

in my mouth swam them around

swallowed themMom

Quas foundthree little stones

as big as peas, as bees

of a ruby color

in his lifetime of lungs

he was frequently affected

with loves palpatreasonsin the wall

he built her a nail

Quazimodo


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Upon opening a letter a man, supposed to have died of some mysterious

wasting, from some form of intense intestines longing or wishing (not quite

desire), a hard stone, big as a coffee cup was found in his heart in was in

an insect alphabet No description of the many July mornings of the white cup

on the roof of summer or its ghostly nature remainsas an aura of words

that make in each each heart purses or pockets

pixies slip into the purse

and leave their Xs stones fell inPet Milk

rrresponsible for discordant noise and jangled tempo

feized fee ftill fee ftill inferted fub fis fub fnot fize fe fe fu if fe ft fce ffes fa

fer veffel

CP

aland on the moon

His heart was a big as a toasterand audible

it went opium

ufe ur ceff

obf wer og hu

bane bite ver

ferv orc utv

XHis heart was as big as an oxsheart

as big as a microwave

he went fizzzzzzz.

his was four times bigger than a Snickers, a volume of Shakespeare

than a wash pail,

as big or bigger,

than a washing machine

or your weeks wash, in July.she became round white in the August sun.witch her hair the color of hylighter and marigolds

Aghost

She increased in cavities,like eating candy forever

as daisys would, in dialog,

in it, in the villi,

in the shaggy fibers of the septum,

with partitions between the many

many ventriloquists,guests and ghosts were held in form

by Scotch tape, [ ] vague preminum cat liter

that everything comprehended liter after letter [ ]


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Actually, in the ventricles were found three stonesas big as big peas,

or bigger, as elephants [ ]

move by witchs wish

n longer need to speak in the morning to you

evening I say are the marbles rolling about my headI swallow them and they roost in the atriums of my heart they

are birds and begin to sing

ar lue o tar lue ot lue uoooOOOoooOOO

when the moon has empted her and him

which goes like this

Ar lue o tar lue ot lue uoooOOOoooOOO

you go to a witch for butter

the letters to have her stones removed from thee

if it were only as easysimple as a finger touching

another finger

look at pretty lip mantis

Witchin the wavesshe the tide of his heart

as if they were at the beach

in sand and warm water a wash cloth

sang her hand moved about his ballshis clouds full of geese

and red Buicks and watermelons

or tiny frogs watermelon seeds

gazillions singing zebras

make a frog noise NOW!harp tunes of bull frog rib

a mattress stuffing with pancakes

As they spread the bones upond the tablehere the tiny bones of her feetand here her shoulder bones

here two stones

on his Giza plateau, lips,

the swami wonders at their purpose

them bones posed as dry corn

the hear so frequently the moon

at non

A vowel, a stone of 14 grams like a bezoarwas found in my heart

bezoars grow in the heads of toads

the bezoar gives the toad her golden eyes


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her broom, her lint brush, her tits,

how the bezoar found its home in my heart

and why he died of a stone

and her eyes

it was a yardstick and clothespins that caused the dinosaurs

to commit the venial sins of dreams and extinct Tang

the swami wonders at their purpose, death and the heart

each has five letters

eash has a t

and an e and an a

one is art and one is eat. Which one?

See, says the swami, I am a great poet

today he ponderssweat and sour pork

or chicken with lemon grass?

An EleloeafUnder the spreading chestnut tree I Michaelaphanta stone as big as an Indian elephant, an African Elephant

a horse, a plasma TV, a Toyota, as big as Sri Lanka

as big as the red owl that hunts moles and mice

from the crescent

finger moon a Cthe heart was double in size

as big as a capital consonant,

Constaninople or a continentAsia almost as big as her first is figs

and a sharpened pencil

when stabbed by one

will grant you lead poison

and you will die

if a moth sits upon your nipple

the kiss of which will make you deaf

and your penis will be an eraser

on an idiots yellow number two pencilpink and softly rounded

shredding and nearly

gone,

it will wear a hole in your paper

and you will die

it will be bitten off

in second grade in line at the water fountain

once, as a kiss

a chestnut fell and fell into his heart

and in his heart a stone

the size of chestnut was fountain

the frequency witches say: love comes to everyone as gum on the sidewalk


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a purulent urine runs rain

for feveral festival days from a woman of pulp

the pulp of whofe whole heart

was fuppurated

puppeturated ruptured and yingas yesterdays reliance on the alphabet and words

appliances like a Whirlpool dryer, the microwave,Miracle Whip

and deep and important emotions

meaning worse feelings

and the clever clover,

the witches sing in sight of rocket scientists and poets.

[the lamp of the lightbulb undone, cracked and gone,

busted and the quivering lip of filament limply sea ofNivea Cream [a

copper colored

heart shapped taghangs from the cats collar

I fold the laundry

item by item

July and August

Sep

Socks]

[ ]

[ ] bones[ ] moons

[ ] stones

[ ] we Ra hear

[ ] birds

[ ] Mari and Wendy

[ ]Jinn abowve

Foxglove

Co lo fo no oll oc

I open o woo l f onto ofOne co lo fo non oll oc co lo

O wo fo Ove of orax found as to find

In the principle branch of the coronary

The bones of a crow

Convex compact

Glickering naked in the cavity

Disordered moon membrane

Fible on the external surface

For with these words I dance

For the heremThe fleshy columes of Columbus in the ventricles

Foi to moft of ox od bon

O oa bows of worms


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Words in the three atriums OReins and obfevers

Of theves flickerting veffel

ncewish we were fisin whenight of August mot

I wish your window open

so I can hear youring singing

upon nopening a night

when they are cut noenly the part of the body concerned is paralyzed

fupposed to have died of lic

A hard stone Big as a nutmeg

If rain has her her the number button

Wear the rain sleeps

As an eye in butter

Night swam in a sea of milkweed

As an eye in butter opens Cleopatras nevel

Fondue in her heart

upn upon dissection of his body

(the sprouts eaten like asparagus of geni)

weary leaves by waves

her rain was found intact

in his water windy heart

rising little red grains

of sand and red giants

clear but clouded

like gummy bears

and some of Gregory Corsos

penguin dust

fishfish

A hard stone Big as a nutmeg

paralysis in order to prove tightnesswe work with releaved letters

where the union runs over the coarse flute

the operation: Fall


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to get rib of these holes in the religion,

to treat common diseases,

to repute

the moon purse lips of milkweed

Oh sewing tread

Oh poisonous plants of Indiathese caterpillars that crawl forth from you

deviations of the social order or in a box

restricted to a slab of paper

the tepid stupidness of memory

imposes upon love

loves leaf eaten

WeWe

this paper is the same thing

the dried substitute

for ipecacuanha

the root power

febrifuge, anthelmintic, depurative, expectorant and laxative.

the letters are bitter

and because they are trivial

we easily see we

If rain has her her the number button

sand and water two equals three

milkweed O isomorphisms

the unit and counit

satisfy the triangular identities

a biuniversal arrow

satisfies all through it

is not necessary we construct:

fevers, rheumatism, indigestion,cough, cold, eczema

asthma,

elephantiasis,

nausea,

vomiting, diarrhea fortunately, as you know the longevity of love

measures

in the half-life of a stick of gum

arriving with the frequency of email

Wear the rain sleeps


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clothes vertically horizontally

natural formations

except that this preserves

composition and identity

Smuckers for every object

in this appear paper colmitssea cormorants

drown the notation

all small categories V

each cohearen henisos

a window

a milkweed

fingers fell in love with

a window

closed

As an eye in butter

(Is there any reason I should try to get my poems in Conjuntions?

Oh dont be stupid. You dont know whose reading.)

here a weak decoupling results

half spaces, spines

intestines, widn, bells

give an edge configurationsalt is used to remove the hair.

the morphisms continuous map

two cells must in order tomaketoe

the various compositions

associative and unital

if we regard May

as a descrete category for all

pseudo limitstime, objects

omit

O Mit catch the baseball

on the 6th

grade dirt diamond

that I mistook for the breast of the moon

plum-iting groinwword

word as a window in the way

i j e obj j

a b a b a bmor a b b if h


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Night swam in a sea of milkweed

These examples show there are more ways than two to compose one.

tight in a sense

the random measure of a fingerupper bound and finely large

auxiliary random

provide suitable probabillististic

on the surface

with the lettuce rescaled

saying that the cluster

insects the finfishing nets

and sewing thread.

for any bounded there exists

only the volume

As an eye in butter opens Cleopatras nevel

Asclepiadaceae dance or decaycoy or swallow wort

proof deviation (or POOF!)

endowed with weak topography

the constellation consisting of a finite intersectionadmit a baseball implies

lower

true we a butterfly weed

measure a subsequence of origin

Fondue in her heart

LOrals probabity blue or subsets red

ane vent Lent is said to be increasing snailsmon-dreaming procolation

compeared with complicated models

Tyra Banks or Heidi Klum

then the law stochastically dominates

thee chastity

the box centered at the origin

is the set (TV Set)

if there is a path of opened edges

forgive me

the sites of A which have a nearest neighbor

Arrested Music Periodically the Word is Winnow Window


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TupperwareCelery in and out paper in a lax functor

between Cosmopolitan and a

weighted potaetoe

transformations between crows

and caterpillars

it is a two-way street

like up the ying-yang

Playtex

is a poem whats

identity in morphine

-must satisfy the coherence diagrams-

composed functors

wintering in Mexico where your eggs hatch

when you sign on for poetry

I didnt imagine the job

to stick the genii in a bottle

HeintzKetchup

or

Clorox

Milkweel Speels

Forgetful Functions

another beautiful fundamental fondle

sley or sloop the invented liquid

flow (not a flower to romantic for a magazine

or a word in a random medium.

these these lettuce with bacon broom

or fat tomato vertex

phase coexistence o

so write a homeopathic poetry

beginning in June which is really springnothing else in the edible lattice

a spiedeer with 8 letters

otherwise witches it is infinight

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