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Submitted by unterschreber on Sunday, 30 December, 2007 - 23:24

Infuriant

In Mute 2.6 fictitious capital collided with hypermetrical verse distemper[*].  What follows makes matters worse by further entangling these things with forthcoming Mute subject matter: baby biometrics, tax credit tagging for Hard To Let Families, etc.

[* See also: QUID 18: créateur d'intérieurs (£4 incl. P&P, from Keston Sutherland, Arts B, University of Sussex, Flamer, Brighton BN1 9QH, or http://www.barquepress.com/quid.html)]

Soft hands from Baby Bonds

face gone in freezing fog in flames in
sure-starred perpetual obligation
re re Munich Sicherheit
all your tomorrows & so weiter
come at once

get him up off the ground and into it [1.]
downgrade my uplathe ways [2.]

it is permissible to rhyme a word with itself
but his repetitions seem at times motivated less 
by any expressive goal than by
an inability
to think of another word.

Ergo totgeschlagen! [3.]
every child-risk leveraged up
to the full five targets and including
total recall of appointments missed

Implied (i.e. spot price of cover against future)
Volatility [4.]
Is it oblivion or absorption when things pass from our
minds? [5.]

strays flinch, avid for favours
but plight trothed must at least be able
to hold a normal conversation [6.]
Sin in the diminiutive
Masque of pleasure neuropeptides
Ludwig II-style

Are you askin' me or are you tellin' me? [7.]
negative looks trigger
the wounded monolines descend [8.]
unlikewise
working: families tax credit
Shanghai-spurned yet safe from accidental
set up repetition magic howl

building on the strengths of visiting,
I never thought of conceiving that I could ever have the slightest approach to such
a want in all future time. [9.]

[1.] Sam Peckinpah, 'Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid', MGM, 1973
[2.] Putzimutzi (R.I.P.)
[3.] Georg Buechner, 'Dantons Tod', Gesammelte Werke, Goldmann, 1956
[4.] Implied volatility: of stock market prices, as measured not by variation of the prices themselves, but by that of the price of insuring or 'hedging' against such volatility.
[5.] Emily Dickinson, Selected Letters, Ed. Mabel Loomis Todd, Dover, 2003
[6.] Recently introduced as a minimum requirement for applicants for German residency through marriage.
[7.] Peckinpah, op. cit.
[8.] Monolines: a recently-doomed section of finance capital.  More precisely, bond insurers, which tend to be 'worth' less than the bonds insured, so that Chinese sovereign wealth funds find them too unappetizing to be worth rescuing.  News just in suggests that Warren Buffett is about to swallow all of them whole.  What's really shocking, though, is that no consortium of single parents ever attempted to  pool and securitze their Tax Credit for a quick, highly leveraged profit.
[9.] Dickinson, op. cit.



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