23 January 2014

Rae Armantrout [Charles Bernstein]

from Rae Armantrout’s just saying:

Experimental Design

To test for consciousness,

ask the machine,

“What is wrong

with this picture”

A potted plant

where a keyboard should be.

Ask yourself,

“Would a cat be frightened?”

Event Horizon

A street person? —

unshaven, haggard —

in a button-down

and a full black skirt.

If an image could talk,

what would it say?

A man in a skirt participates.

A man in a skirt

is never alone?

*

We are never alone.

We are men in skirts.

I am.

I draw attention

to myself.

To make a black hole,

one must concentrate.