‘Can’t’ is ‘Night’ Leslie Scalapino My text is for June Watanabe, Pauline Oliveros, Anshin Uchida, Toyoji Tomita,Shoko Hikage, and Philip Gelb in a collaboration with their dance and music. night.
‘no language’ ‘with it’ — movement or
language, here (2) the real-time event
(occurring) is the only thing there is/ ‘was’ they’ve destroyed language so we have to destroy it in
it not movement night exists at day — but is not the
same night so night is not-existing then then
is open to the senses
she (someone) says our language is to remove
boundless character of night, that’s terror. when? their ‘lie’ — as that one’s is to substitute for night, hers
night ‘terror’ — say how ______. to reverse
‘their’ reverse of the boundless character of night can’t be said or
moved either even
though outside blues
can’t exist outside either — as separation of character and night. so it’s separation of character
and night 2 (3) our
prisoner was
found on the ground outside standing before Bagram U.S. military prison in Afghanistan which
we’ve decimated, lie to, for
something they didn’t do — the U.S. military take
him in beat him to death, prisoners who
interrogated chained hang while ‘our’
marines beat them to keep them
awake if they fall asleep when hanging there present —blues can’t exist outside —
or in character no night being — as woman who says
‘our’ language is to reverse night’s being — without edge — any night terror he’d committed no crime standing
outside might be terrorist
her separation of ‘our’ language from any real- time night
order (4) Major
Elizabeth Rouse, pathologist, checked the homicide box to say he was murdered by U.S. military
—events don’t fit in, at all — aren’t in language either — Major Elizabeth Rouse told the truth blues can’t exist outside now for
night is not-existing then
then is open to the senses to newspapers
say (their corpses) one Iraqi man walks forward
holds his AK47 above his head, he defies our huge
army somehow to walk to it what’s he thinking? as our soldiers
kill him in movement he can’t
do (5) says after
the person’s attack on one in his saying
one’s motion — is fixed, fixing it — where its intent is
to have no place its motion is its theory he says the motion is one’s fixed self,
which, if one speaks, one he says ‘imagines’ attack of his on one, that is that
(is his reverse of one and others) he says one is self-centered in seeing it — not one is
seeing his actions outside in fact — so, there is no event, no
real-time — at all in that their/his language
changes it always — is then ‘only’ not its past action — or occurrence now separation of thinking and being the same is occurring outside ‘from’
war they make saying to them it’s liberating them not attacking before, our language is only coercion,
in every conversation reverse event — any except themselves in ‘our’ language — in space at all — language is then (6) since an event’s — not language —
separation of character and night — is outside movement’s —
separation of character and night
2 day. as. bud ‘dis-placing’ is lineage. — both. (both the bud and
‘dis-placing’) single is ‘tree’s’ buds there day. “we dropped a few civilians, but
what do you do?” the sniper says “1 Iraqi soldier and 25 women and
children, I didn’t take the
shot, but
1 Iraqi soldier standing among 2 or 3 civilians,” sharp-shooter
Sergeant Schrumpf remembering the woman
going down — “the chick was in the way” events
are against movement can’t be in one’s
movement ‘dis-placing’ terror by killing.
not movement dis-placing language the Kurds just move in that space waves on a line across it (‘we’ve’)
courted to fight and dropped them to be, were,
slaughtered again court to
have them attack on the lands where they’re slaughtered then wave on
lines on one side in space ‘we’ label
them freedom fighters on the line’s other side the same ones
‘we’ label terror ists as words labels space—one— is there
difference between the ‘basic space of phenomena’
and the space of planets
moon outside movement? (7) “I
expected them to surrender I thought they would all capitulate.” in
the 3 days that followed, they
did not. — many of the Iraqis, Sergeant Redmond said,
attacked headlong into the cutting fire of tanks and
Bradley fighting vehicles “I wouldn’t
call it bravery,” he said.
“I’d call it stupidity. we value a soldier’s
life so much more than they do. an
AK47 isn’t going to do nothing
against a Bradley” since
we’re to reverse with ‘our’ language — boundless characteristic
of night as day order Iraqis are fighting tanks, aircraft, artillery, prison
camps, torture Sergeant
Redmond thinks that’s stupid. for him relation of
language to movement: is none? the
relation of language to movement is: ‘none’ in order to make that relation — there the
only chance they have is
at all
night (8) the
phrase ‘the basic space of phenomena’ is
different from night space? night’s in event
is ‘the basic space of phenomena’ before occurrence of the phenomena ‘we’re’ ‘our’ language is to reverse the boundless
characteristic of night, she (someone) says, to reverse night’s night is everywhere fierce fighting
in Kut the south where desperate Iraqis armed with rifles charged
tanks in suicide raid. ‘we’ mowed them down says
Lt. Col. B.P. McCoy — tracer rounds lit night sky there the
battalion arrived after dark and settled down for the night night
is in the newspaper page only (9) with
no warning
shot, fire killing family of fifteen — or they fight
‘our’ tanks with AK47s from
pick-up trucks ‘ours’ say those others are only lied to, not brave
in
‘our’ movement (10) there
is no way (‘reason’) to live, following the day. I thought. ‘our’
language is to (she says) reverse — the
‘basic space of phenomena’ (phrase) and the space of planets moon’s not outside (11) he
characterizes ‘our’ enemy, Iraqis, as murderers, cowards,
thugs — and he praises the U.S. force for
their kindness and goodness. their
Iraqi bodies lay along the road. living these are all
across night, they cross night, are
not
its character to reverse trees marines came and Iraqis left so quickly
left cooking fires alight and their guns they need them Baghdad plunges into darkness —
can’t be. ‘our’ war everywhere — isn’t/is — in
‘our’ language in
movement of
one (12) has
made living impossible. any way. ‘they’ destroy language. destroy night fight with your hands they
exhorted the Iraqi people the
Kurds just move in that space waves
on a line across it (‘we’ve’) courted to fight and dropped
them to be, were, slaughtered again ‘we’
have nowhere ahead — either —any way. she says ‘our’ language is to reverse the
bound less characteristic of night to destroy night to — without language — in it
— two — outside (13) destroy
that language for
that night there (14) this
isn’t about suffering we’d be suffering if ‘we’ were happy she (someone) says ‘our’ language is reverse
of the bound less that’s terrorist terror characteristic of night’s everything in my language / is ‘ours’ only
— to enter the boundless night night’s without language any basic space of phenomena’s not
outside or in — is it there
also?
a man (someone) says a (this) syntax is a state of being insanity — but it’s attention only —
to itself I thought attention, and as its
subject, cannot be insane? or may be breaking ‘his’ reason this now phenomena ‘our’ being ‘happy’ (emotion that’s
convention) is ‘ours’ not in events outside is insane the outside and the inside cannot be
there in ‘our’ character? if it is
uncompounded or
re — in attention (one cannot be regarding), either — that separation of character and
night night cannot be seen regarding is separation of one from others
only here not-regarding
collective now — having driven the
Iraqis insane attention now is insane — is
dependent on the separation of character and night 2, not in
movement— either — them in ‘our’ thought, language, ‘our’
movement is before
(language) and later. the civilians had to be killed on
the road fleeing Baghdad because they were there as
‘we’re’ (invading) — is not ‘our’ movement in that it
has occurred already — (15) the
breaking of reason not inside movement of one’s — moon
and movement — of one’s or at
all (and moon) — is the breaking of reason. one’s
is ‘theirs’ (01) it’s
‘not repeated’ — ‘to produce’ —that is: ‘be-dualistic’ — at all is night’s space even
— not their — that’s outside — despair
is one’s physical movement bud’s lineage outside at
once on one night (02) to reverse ‘our’ language’s reverse of nights
night-boundless- ness or
movement of/in one’s
— disintegrating also — skin that’s movement only then ‘can’t’ is ‘night’ (16) their despair is one’s physical movement (not). language is crushed. “2 Iraqis
sat in despair.” after their dead coincide with night after (and after night’s over). the
breaking of reason — a
man seeing. (17)
as if by favoring war is meant its reverse reverse trees (that are) night
characteristic I can’t see/comprehend it’s (before
night) ‘the basic space of phenomena’ phrase he’s been reversed in language — ‘we’re’
‘killing as its reverse’ ‘our’ character is even in
night_________ say how? (18) the
breaking of reason is silent seeing movement (of
one’s) language since
these ’re in utter isolation only, that
is everyone is as
language as social/and dawn. their
despair is one’s physical movement (not). (19) long
movement (single) does not repeat the
outside ‘isn’t’/ ‘is’ the same as ‘his’ night
crushing language of one — night’s space even? he/someone else intends actual sky even to reverse its night/as
language/one not — while (one) dawn-waking actually
(‘at’ dawn yet one there
also) dawn
in the same space as
one is. someone/it’s
not possible for him to do any thing even without attacking someone else first, he can’t, he’s
never done so. defensive is be-dualistic he can’t stand (in front of others) without
first attacking someone what is this space (in
front of others)? he
can’t sustain others
because he will not. ‘then’ present. isn’t
reason — reason is insane movement of one’s is theirs their
despair already it? that
space/social even and not dualistic isn’t
even because
that would be dualistic, it night sky would. ‘be-dualistic’ in nights not mirror and: ‘our’ tyrant makes/‘is’ the war expanding
in an
outside the outside breaking reason is — ‘isn’t’/
‘is’ — the same as ‘his’ night crushing language of one — night’s space
even. long
movement (single) sky even to reverse its night/as
language/‘one not’ — while (one) dawn-waking
actually (‘at’ dawn yet one there dawn
also (22) A
wave is sucked into sleep then the
forest is completely separate from the people
always — outside and separate
from the war though the
forest destroyed or growing is
in the war the
forest is balanced on the night and then balanced on the day at
the same time. after — is the same time later the forest wave if the trees are
still even on night is one wave moving on day that’s war whether day appears still. day is in war.
separate from the forest day still appears. the forest is black at night black fire goes away at night though night’s
still the dark gangly sleek moose come out and shy
away vertically though one moves across
night for long distances wave of
forest (23) immense
light on the endless lake at night
black the
ducks fly across it night
vertically the
dark gangly sleek moose roam at will in the forest wave
on the endless still lake never black then the endless lake moves night black (24) the forest rushes to the road push steel
rumpled thunderous clouds are at
the road at the
forest meeting ahead — at one’s side forest
wave rushing horizontally to the rumpled steel clouds everywhere
ver- tically race to the endless lake steel light in it sky of rain descends everywhere
vertically then black bear rambles
gracefully in the sheets rain-vertical-grass in day separating night horizontally above (25) occurrence in structure unseen words
on a sign “owl rafting” the dark
mist separates morning from night so the forest wave begins to rush but
the forest moved at night unseen
by one rafting the
night rafting the owl, unseen by one, the forest rafting the
owl
rafting the night forest — one rafting only and unseen owl-night at forest-wave there (26) — woman saying our language is to
reverse night — is ‘for’ that — not producing — night uncontrolled is occurrence in structure unseen at
all not
producing at all — one’s seeing — but
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