Directions for a Performance

 

Ask them to participate (discreetly).
Let months pass.
Tell them you are recruiting them.
To work in a chicken factory.
Wait. Tell them you are writing.
Say a wedding is coming.
Say you are wedding your mother.
Tell them you wish to cut the shadow from her body.
Wait. Make fun of a man who isn't afraid to be beautiful.
Tell them you are writing something funny, violent, and touching.
Do not talk to them.
Kill your mother. Say she was a shadow.
Go to a bar. Get them to call a stranger.
Discuss the sexual uses for salad dressing
with a stranger. Refuse the stranger.
Discuss what you have written.
Say you wish to tell a thing and keep hidden others.
Make them believe that you are talking about your text.
Pretend you are Nijinsky.
Bow before a vulgar goddess.
Bite a flower's petals. Dance on the stem.
Say it is a portal sky, an opening to Cosmos.
Give petals to each of them.
Tell them you like the rhythm of their Voice.
Say you don't know which voice is theirs.
Draw vast cosmogonies. Eat vast cosmogonies.
Eat the flower. Make sure they see it.
Say you love them. Get them to say it back, to kiss
your neck (if possible). Then describe a panic.
Wait. Show them a portion of what you have written.
Assume they are talking when you are not.
Be sure you have mined an archetype.
Say it is an archetype you have mined.
Be sure a cloud is watching. Wait.
Let the wedding be planned.
Be sure they discuss you.
Make sure they frame you as a complex.
Talk with them over dinner.
Talk rapidly. Do it stupid.
Ask about the dashes in L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E.
Call the next day. Ask
about the people who were watching you.
Let them talk about you.
Assume a persona. Be obsessive
about your persona's position.
Assume a contradictory position.
Panic.
Attend the wedding
then
go home.
Talk with Mayakovsky in the tub.
Pretend the tub is a wine vat.
Then write for your friends something
behind your forehead,
an animal that says

Fuck you my bitches.
I will love you always.

 

 

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