Arsenic Lobster poetry journal Issue Thirty-four
Spring 2014
 
Writing Through John Cage’s Writing Through the Cantos
Denise Duhamel and Maureen Seaton
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wOmen of Lust from spaIn y caVals mEre
mOist scarlet dutchess at tuscanY thought oLd
zulianO maLetestis gone hIm down here bloody leVity is brEst
mOve said meteuskY biers to seLl
cannOn peace whiLe RussIa down Via das days gonE
brOken wilderness You desire queLla
Oh murdered fLorins paId over dozen years conVeyance bE
practicable cOme save saYs bLanche
fOrds prizes agreed niccoLo of cIVilization thEy
On prevalent knee learnearY Little
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enclOse farms bY catherine faiLed
rOle wd. suggest Large admIssions freedom Vu frEnch
by wOrd this countrY vienna in haLf
cOncerns bLack cent sonvabItch the Venn diEt
but tOpaze paralYzed pubLicly answered questions
duOi che faLseggiando del vatIcan neVer publishEd
Orage tamuz thY seabord fieLds
kOlschitzky received sacks hoLd amerIcan evviVa zwischEn
die vOlkern in eddYing eighth simpLes
gOes in a haze of coLours boIled true proVince grEed
sOldiers maY mumbo 1069 Lord
lipan bOozing king of ghazeL dIdn’t pray caVed gavE
which apprOved a struggle then gen. washington tuesdaY cLean
cOd cLear that zeeland we sIgned heaVen rEmplis
d’un hOmme axletree drY fango diaLogava
centrO Lembo suo Immondizia slaughter goVernment rather lEss
vOn danzig theY tout dit que pas a smaLl
stOrm equaLled the sound of Its byzance Vine crotalEs
hOping the senate Yurr centre noveLs
make Out foLlowed Initially mr. p robert zupp loVe impEnetrable
trOubled sheer music hiding wine dirtY throne exceLlent
sacrO humboLdt agassIz pleased slaVes and TazEwell
Old sadist Yes san zeno stone-Loop
shOt stiLl stIll war and corpse ---- coVered thEir
kolobOzed albuquerque --- destroYed de vaux 32 miLlion
dOuze bLuejays hIs quatorze fool maVerick repEating
asscensiO shepherd circe Yao whuder ich maei Lidhan
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About Denise Duhamel and Maureen Seaton

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