Doritos (Grid Poem by Clara B. Jones)

Doritos®

for Margo Emm*

1.

Andira is the most beautiful of all beautiful trees.	Experience the before and after of Doritos®.	Make Art, not pizza.
The brightest minds are not yet born.	“The Chinese Century is well underway.”**	Modern states maximize hypersurveillance.
Kanye argued the case against gender equality.	3³ + 4³ + 5³= 6³	Afrobots act in their own self-interest.
China is patient; Congo is bankrupt.	French art de vivre isn't everything.	It's your bedroom; you make the rules.
Physicians are over-rated, but dentists don't care.	In Detroit, past, present, and future converge.	If, rb-c>0, then, I might like you.

2.

To contest the binary is a political act because they are not class-identified since they live in Cleveland but wear designer clothes, driving a used Benz® down Front Street going to visit their lover in Akron where the City Council passed an ordinance decreeing all homeowners to buy at least one non-binary Afrobot from Brazil where macaw vocalizations filter through wet leaves, their raspy staccatos and showy displays overhead, sounds infusing darkness between canopy and soil where hermaphrodite earthworms live bisexual lives as soil engineers for microbes and rhizomes and mycorrhizae with no sex lives like revolutionaries in solitary confinement revising theories of profit and loss as tools of oppression and alienation in Braverman's terms. The Amazon sang Love me forever—but, they are programmed by wet synapses, their persona now stabilized, their life a terra incognita of radical outcomes.

*Photograph
**The Economist, October 27^th-November 2^nd, 2018

Rules Of Art (Poem by Clara B. Jones)

Rules Of Art

for Dalton Anthony Jones


Sol Lewitt: "If words are used, and they proceed from ideas about art, then they are art and not literature."

Morgan Parker: “What does it mean to be at once upheld and at the same time continually made to feel less than?”

Louise Nevelson: “Different people have different memories.... Some have memories for words, some for action—mine happens to be for form.”

Frank Stella: “It's art, or it wants to be art, or it asked to be considered as art, and therefore the terms we have for discussing art are probably good enough.”

Doris Rita Alphonso: “[Christine Delphy] criticizes feminists and others who challenge sex as a natural category and yet maintain the distinctions between masculine and feminine as a necessary cultural construct.”

Claudia Rankine: “Perhaps the most insidious and least understood form of segregation is that of the word.”

Helen Vendler: “I think that a lot of things are hard to read if you're not in the vocabulary flow of that particular discourse.”

Jennifer Hansen: “Each subject ought to be free, argues [Luce] Irigaray, to pursue the unique possibilities of his or her subjective identity in ways that do not subordinate their differences to a hierarchical, patriarchal economy.”

Sol LeWitt: "Perception is subjective."

Mel Bochner: "What has been generally neglected is a concern with the object of art in

terms of its own material individuality--the thing itself."

Gertrude Stein: “Afrobots make better pets than cats but hiss like snakes.”