Untitled, October 2018 (Haibun Grid Poem by Clara B. Jones)

Untitled, October 2018

for Harold Cohen (1928-2016)

1.

Deployment of bots is always a safe bet if deer season is longer than usual.	AARON is a new race without a verified taxonomy.	Every artist has his favorite platform as long as machines remain in power.
B2N5 draws maps for anyone holding a passport from Chad.	I was followed by a robocam from work to the gym, but Hiromi said I shouldn't be concerned.	Networks are ubiquitous, though they are not self-correcting.
Basquiat was a genius who always flew coach.	MI ENTITY ES TU ENTITY.	B2N5 has better credit than Evo Morales.
Hoverboards are more important than sensors but of less concern than Bauhaus.	Materialism makes existence palatable though MMT is certain to fail.	AARON gives comfort to seniors, and old people pay them well.
My synth is more friendly than my cat since my cat is in constant pain.	Graphs describe Art like trees describe birds' nests.	All machines are made to serve the interests of hedge funds.

2. 
Is a tragic hero's character flawed, or did he simply make a mistake? You never cared about theory though AARON links Nihilism to Dada and to the period before the war when Stein was the patron of Paris, convincing Pablo to paint her body slouched in a chair [royal-style] before the Cubist gave her another face. You bought Gombrich's classic to impress your friends though your robot doesn't imitate life since escaping ideas of the real brings you pleasure, and performance is the only Truth.

3.

Mi entity is tu entity. You understood that, didn't you when Hiromi asked you to join her in Newport where B2N5 was holding court for one week, singing the praises of Warhol? I was too tired to go. Michelle had jumped from Throgs Neck the week before, and Jerry called me about his episode though I wasn't inclined to help since I have my own problems. But, things are getting better. You understand me, don't you? Why should I feel guilty? Friends are so demanding and never tell you the whole story. I just wanted to sleep. Joining B2N5's set was not on my list of things to do that week, and you do nothing but complain about your job. You need an analyst, but Jerry will have his hands full for awhile.

4.
B2N5's art
Defamiliarizes
Humans and cyborgs.

What Is 'Experimental Art'" (Poem by Clara B. Jones)

What Is 'Experimental Art'?

for Marjorie Perloff

“The one feature that all literary experiments share is their commitment to raising fundamental questions about the very nature and being of verbal art itself.” Joe Bray, Alison Gibbons, & Brian McHale

“There exists no science of word creation.” Velimir Khlebnikov	We need to recognize that androids are part of the landscape.	“Defamiliaration    draws attention to the use of common language in such a way as to alter one's [sensation and] perception of an easily understandable object or concept.” Viktor Shklovsky
...extreme deviation from that which is familiar.	Latoya is a genius without a plan, but they make good brownies and keep their clothes clean.	“Facebook® files algorithm patent to predict who you live with.” wsj.com
ROP-7 loves you, and you're doing a great job.	Figues au Thym: 1 pound dried figs; 2 cups red wine; 2 or 3 small branches of thyme; 3 tablespoons honey. Richard Olney	Helen Frankenthaler saw the cliffs of Nova Scotia.
/poem erased/	zaum	Green is the color of my map falseing an ecosystem collapsing —into the North Sea.
Number 1, 1950 (Lavender Mist). Jackson Pollock	Antipodal and anxious, three Negrobots pick pumpkins. Each knows the way.	To delete your files, press this key.
The impact of global climate change could cause U.S. economic losses totaling hundreds of billions of dollars per year by the end of the century.	Self-Portrait In A Convex Mirror. John Ashbery	I know it when I see it.
Paul Fry, “Russian Formalism” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11_oVlwfv2M&list=PLD00D35CBC75941BD&index=8&t=0s	Agents walk like chickens purring like cats chasing goats —thirsty as hummingbirds hovering over flowers.	Poetry should make reality strange. (after Wallace Stevens)

Lobster Sonnet (Poem by Clara B. Jones)

Lobster Sonnet*

1a. You are a poet who likes Lobster Thermidor.

1b. There are two types of people: gourmands and cat-lovers, but, thanks to Shemika, it's hard to trust chefs.

2. Stand up for your rights since your father is cruel and your mother has an I.Q. of 75.

3a. Wilderness maps could slow global warming: https://www.wilderness.net/nwps/maps

3b. Furthermore, negroes pair caviar and eel.

4. You were a revolutionary in Chad, but now you are living the American dream.

5a. What is the difference between human and Afrobot?

5b. Afrobots are simulacra.

5c. Is Poetry a simulacrum of life?

6. Michelle left Barak and ran off with a Cyborg.

7a. Mexicans like tacos but would rather eat herring.

7b. Yes, but you are a negro who never eats okra.

8a. Women smoke menthols and spray mint perfume.

8b. On the other hand, they want tech jobs.

9a. Shemika traded a litre of Merlot for a bag of chips.

9b. Her cat was hungry.

10a. Shemika is a vegan.

10b. Everything in moderation.

10c. ...split peas, onion, natural flavors, starch, potato, carrot, yeast extracts, sea salt, garlic, parsley, lemon peel, spices, citric acid [made in a facility that uses peanuts and other food allergens]...

11a. Are you obsessive-compulsive?

11b. No. My life is chaotic. “Chance favors the prepared mind,”¹ but mine is in disarray.

12. Negroes pair eel and Merlot.

13a. I have a degree in cybersecurity but would rather earn a living as a line cook.

13b. What is holding you back?

13c. I'm allergic to the smell of olive oil, and my mother texts me constantly.

13d. Cybersecurity pays well, and you could move to Boston.

13e. I am sensitive to cold air and am not Catholic.

13f. You are a negro and might like Atlanta.

13g. I am looking for a different demographic.

13h. You should consider Miami.

13i. Gay men are moving to Osaka.

14. C'est ca.

*Published August 2018 in Otoliths (AU)

Information Sonnet (Poem by Clara B. Jones)

Information Sonnet*

for Claude E. Shannon

1. p log p= 0

2. "If you can control information you can control people."

3. “*$$< ;<:^=]-{-#* <$^{ #$] _\{] 5-=5\!;]^ -#&$=@;]-$#, -] %^#^]=;]^{ ](^ %\3!-5 @-#< 6-](

<^{-=^{ ;#< 3^!-^&{.”**

4. You are dissatisfied with objective reality but are not opposed to the status quo.

5. Identity is heterogeneous and complex.

6. Entomologists catch red flies for the museum in Chad where scientists study fossils fixed in amber—xanthous as toxic foam.

7. I(X; Y)= H(X) – H(X|Y)

8. Her bruise is the color of the space between your toe and your red sock.

9. "Information is only useful when it can be understood."

10. Everything depends on red socks.

11. If you were an Afrobot I couldn't take you home.

12. Transmitter--(x)--> (noisy) Channel--(y)--> Receiver

13. It is easier to turn genes on than to turn genes off.

14. W= K log m

*First published in the online journal, Otoliths [AU], 2018

**“Good advertising does not just circulate information, it penetrates the public mind with desires and beliefs.”

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

The Sand Pit (Grid Poem by Clara B. Jones)

The Sand Pit

for Mary Thomas

She bought a pseudroid at auction in Ithaca while Z4F1 waited in the wings.	Neuromorphic Emulation is bound to change the way we think about fashion.	A network is like an ecosystem because it can collapse.
Post-gender bots are selling like hot cakes.	Botness is the new Pinot Noir.	Peter Scholze described “perfectoid spaces” to a group of replicants.
Joe said “machine envy” is the next big thing.	Fembots live in yellow houses while electric cars are sold in Utah.	There is nothing more durable than Technographic Art.
By 2040, the Post-Human will dominate Psychology.	Science is over-rated since all truth is subject to the will of mathematics.	Synths are retooling Nature throughout the Free World.
New Hampshire is the Ubergraph for all red states.	Brooktondale is the most quiet town within twelve miles of Cayuga.	Post-Racial music is Kanye's new craze.

2.

Fundamentally, you want to change your view of Fondazione Prada since the art of pannini is symbolized by Settis' "Serial Classic" depicting a stolid cyborg in Greek pose in the manner of

a god about to enter a temple or a marketplace, receiving grateful sycophants, slaves to myth

and antiquity. Everything depends on cats stalking mice at dusk along the pathway to Cayuga crowded with students marching to Buffalo Street for theater and myth like synths take their place

beside humans, and devices advise the Thought Council—powerful as Helen's face. The young always bow to Beauty though the old favor gold and fame, knowing that their lives depend

on wine and boiled eggs served by servants imported from Chad on ships built in Spain after

the war, before Celant ran the gallery in Ithaca. It was foolish to think that the Thought

Council curated the show, but the Lanthanum sculpture made you obsessed with grotesque objects and furry pets.

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.”