”In the month of May, 1848, I was called to Northampton on business, and having seen and admired some of John Clare’s poems, I felt a strong desire to have an interview with him, and I ventured to call at the asylum, and was at once introduced to the principal. I told him the object of my calling, and how delighted I should be to have an interview with him (Mr. Clare). He made no objection, and as it was a very fine day, he said we could go and have a walk in the grounds of the institution. We discussed many subjects, and I found him very rational, there being very little evidence of derangement in his mental faculties. To my surprise he left me and went to the boundary wall with paper and pencil in hand, but very soon returned bringing a manuscript which he had written. The lines were noble in sentiment and rich in language, and I much regretted failing to get a copy. Before leaving him he said he should like to see me again, and intimated that he would in the meantime compose me two or three pieces.”

 — Jesse Hall, 8th Sept. 1893

here motherfucker are some magic words, literally written up against the wall of the asylum Clare would die in:

An Invite To Eternity

Wilt thou go with me sweet maid
Say maiden wilt thou go with me
Through the valley depths of shade
Of night and dark obscurity
Where the path hath lost its way
Where the sun forgets the day
Where there’s nor life nor light to see
Sweet maiden wilt thou go with me

Where stones will turn to flooding streams
Where plains will rise like ocean waves
Where life will fade like visioned dreams
And mountains darken into caves
Say maiden wilt thou go with me
Through this sad non-identity
Where parents live and are forgot
And sisters live and know us not

Say maiden wilt thou go with me
In this strange death of life to be
To live in death and be the same
Without this life or home or name
At once to be and not to be
That was and is not—yet to see
Things pass like shadows—and the sky
Above below, around us lie

That land of shadows wilt thou trace
And look nor know each others face
The present mixed with reasons gone
And past and present all as one
Say maiden can thy life be led
To join the living with the dead
Then trace thy footsteps on with me
We’re wed to one eternity

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—Annette Laming (trans. Eleanore Frances Armstrong), Lascaux: Paintings and Engravings (Penguin Books, 1959), p.16

These estrange risk row while negotiations roost in alleging

These risks tower anger while negotiations roll seagoing tin

These gaskets win error while negotiations retool a slinging

These registrars woken while negotiations tilling oreganos

These workers angriest while negotiations alleging torsion

These resowing starker while negotiations ring gasoline lot

These assert reworking while negotiations agonise trolling

These rake songwriters while negotiations altering soloing

These reassert working while negotiations realigning loots

BETTER THAN LANGUAGE:
An anthology of new modernist poetries
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The poets represented are: SARAH KELLY | JONNY LIRON | FRANCESCA LISETTE | JOE LUNA | NAT RAHA | LINUS SLUG | JOSH STANLEY | TIMOTHY THORNTON | ANNA TICEHURST | JONTY TIPLADY | MIKE WALLACE-HADRILL | TOMAS WEBER | and STEVE WILLEY

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Thanks for the Memory

An increase in the average quantity
of transmitter (or other activating substance
released from the VRS) arriving
at the postsynaptic side over an extended
period of time (minutes to days) should lead
to an augmentation in the number of receptor sites
and an expansion of the postsynaptic
receptor region, through conversion of receptor
monomers into receptor
polymers and perhaps some increase in
the synthesis of monomers. [None
of these ideas bears upon the
chemical basis of depolarization
induced by acquisition
induced by acquisition of transmitter
induced by acquisition by receptor.
induced by acquisition There is evidence

J.H. Prynne, Wound Response (1974), in Poems, Bloodaxe (2005), p.220

cf.

An increase in the average quantity of transmitter (or other activating substance released from the VRS) arriving at the postsynaptic side over an extended period of time (minutes to days) should lead to an augmentation in the number of receptor sites and an expansion of the postsynaptic receptor region, through conversion of receptor monomers into receptor polymers and perhaps some increase in the synthesis of monomers. [None of these ideas bears upon the chemical basis of depolarization induced by acquisition of transmitter by receptor. There is evidence that disulfide links are near the receptor sites.]

Kosower, E.M., “A molecular basis for learning and memory”, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (vol. 69 no. 11, 1972), p.3295

 

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