From The Tango

Leslie Scalapino

is subjunctive—the man starving lying dying in garbage?—there not being black dawn—?

no. not anyway—that is, anywhere.—or: subjunctive is only ‘social.’ both.

then (when alive).—(subjunctive.)—black dawn isn’t?—so it has to pass. both.

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to ignore one’s shape/events ‘so’ it goes on wildly—and—anyway.

magnolia buds—that haven’t opened—subjectivity/language only—both

words ‘black dawn’ as shape (instance that has no ‘other’ occurrence) which is ‘their shape/and their conceptual shape.’

to subordinate magnolia buds—that is real-time—both.

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‘not’ for there to be ‘magnolia bud (not-opened)’—

bud ‘dis-placing’ is lineage—both. single is ‘tree’s buds there’ (as only one’s ‘social’—at the same time.

a given in space—dis-place blossoming trees.

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people’s behavior being blossoming trees—per se (just as that)—and the action of it (their ‘behavior’) in the trees blossoming prior—which is separate, sole

bound as ‘split’ (one’s) ‘to’ conception of change as, or in, behavior—

that was not when a child

rather than in blossoming trees—everywhere as ground is an ocean here

so ‘split’ is that only—ocean ‘in’ blossoming trees—‘in fact’ has to be to change people’s behavior/one’s as sole

in fact—itself—isn’t then. change in blossoming trees occurring prior to (trees). (then blossoming trees being ‘social’ only.)

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the moon is socially based as emotion is—so it would be itself.

a given in space—dis-place blossoming trees.

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‘on’ experience—so one’s ‘isn’t,’ is obliterated—by the referring. place this to: seeing ‘at all’ is social—is blossoming trees

or when one’s outside there (so there’s moon there)—as outside is the only existing—both

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‘seeing’ the man starving lying in garbage—yet to conceptually place the site only in relation in space (to foreground and background, or future, simply)—to buildings—is not to iterate those as conditions, present

his dying is to be not in relation to space, or to conjecture

it’s not to be that

‘as’ ‘blossoming trees’ are one’s subjectivity/language ‘there’—

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just oneself being roses only

roses only—people in speaking or in their limbs—being that—to each other also

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bound as ‘split’ (one’s) ‘to’ conception of change as, or in, behavior—

that was not when a child

so ‘split’ is that only—ocean ‘in’ blossoming trees—‘in fact’ has to be to change people’s behavior/one’s as sole

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crushed back the head sees skittering walks—from hurtling road, greenery

friends as ‘that,’ i.e. not existing. are social. is social.

—their back cage’s move it, is the light-and-language? both.

but the men moving there didn’t speak.

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if there

no ‘friends’ (as everyone isn’t that)—nothing social—only being child until dying

delicate back dies sometime.—but these men’s backs move light here only

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only being child until dying—everyone—is their delicate back dies sometime

theirs one

—is ‘basis’—standing or curling? only

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moving is floating ears—elephants—a trunk and face floating on one’s ears

either charging or floating on grass, at once

man’s chest: as trunk floating on ears of elephant’s—he’s that, coming. ears on ‘trunk recoiled or forward.’

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some are

standing or curling. rose—is not—rose (they rose). both.

subjectivity/language is—the delicate food system disturbed famine reappears—?

were killed practicing in the monasteries—shipped to labor, dying, trains shipping them, ringed in by barbed wire haul on dam sites tunnels exhaustion famine in lines, the same figure repeated everywhere changes it there as if changed but not either from within or without that

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if the back’s constructed—and moves the light—is ­subjectivity/language only—they’re not ‘speaking’

that is ‘speaking’—social—both

subjectivity/language constructed also and those men move the light—so—

social isn’t anything?—there—walking—either

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moon rose—that is—appears to

moon rose

on or resting on mountain’s top—edge

horizon—

men’s delicate backs standing move—is separate—from them

there at all—both

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future—movement

is ‘not’ night—or

‘in’ night’—either yet

ahead—so there are not functions ever

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the men standing and curling while the backs lying.—in the place.

social—(is ‘getting along with’ people only?) or one “doesn’t get along with people”—is functions only (someone makes that occur—by ostracism—

one has no function then)

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the man has kindness—is standing lying—or at night curling

where

one holds his back

at ‘night’—?

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must ‘accept’ death of others.—except them. except him. (can’t) is them him also.

at ‘night’ any night is can’t

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—one’s subjectivity/language is their or one’s motion only there?

seeing being only a motion even (in walking, say)

one has no back—yet.—not even ‘in’ ‘night’—not even past movements’ ‘night’—either—and is

future ‘nights’

where(?) no movement of one’s occurs—future is same as one’s motions without extension now

one’s motion ahead—is only one now—nights rose