Bedtime Story Conservatory 67 02/06/2020
Hello everyone,
It just hit me that's its been nearly 70 days since this all started, and somehow this project is bouncing on each day alongside me, and maybe you too, towards something unknown. Maybe it will unblock like a drain at some point, all the goo in the brain will suddenly drain through a hole in your neck and leave behind something clear.
Oscillating: "the repetitive variation, typically in time, of some measure about a central value or between two or more different states."
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ic3g8Xnf7LI
Screamin' Jay Hawkins (1929-2000), an early pioneer of what is called 'Shock Rock', Constipation Blues 1969.
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A list of ways in which you and I can support the black Lives Matter movement, and anti-racism, right now.
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Today's reading is the beginning and 'Abomunus Craxioms' from Bob Kaufman's Abomunist Manifesto 1959. Kaufman (1925-1986) has appeared before on this mailing list, and was an African American Beat poet, satirist, surrealist and jazz performance artist.
"Bob Kaufman's Abomunist Manifesto, "first published serially in John Kelly's glad magazine, BEATITUDE," proclaimed itself to be "the first and last word from the abominable snowmen of modern poetry."
"In this poem, the speaker, possibly Bob Kaufman, employs much word play to deliver a series of seemingly anarcho-surrealistic declarations in the vein of McCarthyism, Beat, and Black Arts manifestos at the time."
The 'Abomunists' are a parody fringe group made up by Kaufman to enact an anarchistic 'rejectionary philosophy'.
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Warmest love, warmest wishes, I hope you safe today inside and out,
Sam
