John Lowther
Note on the Text
555 is both the name and number of sonnets in the manuscript. Counting is crucial (requiring calculator and text analytics). I used Shakespeare’s sonnets combined and divided to find the average for letter, syllable and word, then matched that number exactly in three groups of sonnets. No rhyme or meter but a very exacting measure nonetheless. All lines are found, and typos are retained. Line selection varies with my mood. Assembly has to do with something immaterial that passes through them that’s somehow more than any sum could tell.
555 is both the name and number of sonnets in the manuscript. Counting is crucial (requiring calculator and text analytics). I used Shakespeare’s sonnets combined and divided to find the average for letter, syllable and word, then matched that number exactly in three groups of sonnets. No rhyme or meter but a very exacting measure nonetheless. All lines are found, and typos are retained. Line selection varies with my mood. Assembly has to do with something immaterial that passes through them that’s somehow more than any sum could tell.
W009
The first thing I want to do is show my underarm routine.
Sorry to icky on your moral fiber.
While it is true that everything visible is becoming, it is not true that all
becoming is visible.
It is as if our facts were losing their truth.
They are craving for dreams and action, the purest passions, the
wildest pleasures, and thus they cast into all kinds of fantasies,
and foolishness.
‘Boyfriend’ is just another one of those gross words like 'vagina' or 'love.'
Do you look, I am accident.
Block and move on.
Stand a little out of my sun.
The first thing I want to do is show my underarm routine.
Sorry to icky on your moral fiber.
While it is true that everything visible is becoming, it is not true that all
becoming is visible.
It is as if our facts were losing their truth.
They are craving for dreams and action, the purest passions, the
wildest pleasures, and thus they cast into all kinds of fantasies,
and foolishness.
‘Boyfriend’ is just another one of those gross words like 'vagina' or 'love.'
Do you look, I am accident.
Block and move on.
Stand a little out of my sun.
W010
It speaks.
You get the idea.
I'm Amber and I ooze popularity.
Where is the monkey in the baby cage.
What if we can't envision any escape from the present.
They're putting together a list of movies with great roller skating
scenes.
All the most interesting problems around information today are about
structure: how to cope with the overload, and find sense in the
data.
Is a one night stand a non sequitur in this context.
We don’t another cliché metaphor, we just cliché metaphor.
I don't know how to unlove you.
So I did swimming cupcakes.
I piss excellence.
Mush.
It speaks.
You get the idea.
I'm Amber and I ooze popularity.
Where is the monkey in the baby cage.
What if we can't envision any escape from the present.
They're putting together a list of movies with great roller skating
scenes.
All the most interesting problems around information today are about
structure: how to cope with the overload, and find sense in the
data.
Is a one night stand a non sequitur in this context.
We don’t another cliché metaphor, we just cliché metaphor.
I don't know how to unlove you.
So I did swimming cupcakes.
I piss excellence.
Mush.
W011
Don't smoke without causing an explosion.
When the reader finds words of common usage in the pages that
follow, he is urged to interpret them in a straightforward way.
God has slipped over the horizon.
I have a terrible case of imposter syndrome, feeling like at any
moment everyone is going to find out I have no qualifications
and no idea what I’m doing.
There is no labor history section.
I'm a member since a few days but I can tell you it's really comforting
to know there is a world that resembles to you.
Guilt in search of a crime.
Don't smoke without causing an explosion.
When the reader finds words of common usage in the pages that
follow, he is urged to interpret them in a straightforward way.
God has slipped over the horizon.
I have a terrible case of imposter syndrome, feeling like at any
moment everyone is going to find out I have no qualifications
and no idea what I’m doing.
There is no labor history section.
I'm a member since a few days but I can tell you it's really comforting
to know there is a world that resembles to you.
Guilt in search of a crime.
S002
One major review in 2003 looked at 38 different studies, containing
data on 20,000 participants, and found that overall, political
conservatism was associated with things like death anxiety,
fear of threat and loss, intolerance of uncertainty, a lack of
openness to experience, and a need for order, structure, and
closure.
We implicate ourselves if we even evince familiarity with the frame of
reference.
One major review in 2003 looked at 38 different studies, containing
data on 20,000 participants, and found that overall, political
conservatism was associated with things like death anxiety,
fear of threat and loss, intolerance of uncertainty, a lack of
openness to experience, and a need for order, structure, and
closure.
We implicate ourselves if we even evince familiarity with the frame of
reference.
S003
Let's buy some food home.
I can't believe she told you about that, like I'm holding your cards that
way.
It means nothing else.
For if, as they say, man is a bubble, all the more so is an old man.
Deserve what you reap.
He hears all ambient as new age and there is no arguing with him.
The mouse pupils shrank.
Or you can see what your life can be if you really let your light shine.
You know what I mean.
The rumors are true.
Sometimes during my ride on the bike, my mind will automatically
think about things.
Then the trouble starts.
Let's buy some food home.
I can't believe she told you about that, like I'm holding your cards that
way.
It means nothing else.
For if, as they say, man is a bubble, all the more so is an old man.
Deserve what you reap.
He hears all ambient as new age and there is no arguing with him.
The mouse pupils shrank.
Or you can see what your life can be if you really let your light shine.
You know what I mean.
The rumors are true.
Sometimes during my ride on the bike, my mind will automatically
think about things.
Then the trouble starts.
S004
In experiments on subliminal influence, participants are presented
with two mirror images of the same picture, asked which they
prefer, and are likely to choose the images where a subliminal
negative image is flashed up for milliseconds, before they make
their choice.
Fuck your ass.
It is not a question of purification through language, but on the
contrary of releasing the material in disorder.
The eyes can mislead, a smile can lie, but the shoes always tell the
truth.
In experiments on subliminal influence, participants are presented
with two mirror images of the same picture, asked which they
prefer, and are likely to choose the images where a subliminal
negative image is flashed up for milliseconds, before they make
their choice.
Fuck your ass.
It is not a question of purification through language, but on the
contrary of releasing the material in disorder.
The eyes can mislead, a smile can lie, but the shoes always tell the
truth.
L005
It's like you've got all these John Wayne movies going on inside your
head.
Arrogance is not a uniquely American trait but you do it better than
anyone.
Here are two fun ways that numbers can be distorted for political
purposes.
Temperatures are said to be as high as nineteen hundred on one of
the planets.
Use as a replacement for lemon zest or as a garnish to the
centerpiece dish.
I've never been a lead or a supervisor or key-holder anywhere I've
worked.
Many flowers also have an anus; it is an opening at the base of their
bloom.
It's like you've got all these John Wayne movies going on inside your
head.
Arrogance is not a uniquely American trait but you do it better than
anyone.
Here are two fun ways that numbers can be distorted for political
purposes.
Temperatures are said to be as high as nineteen hundred on one of
the planets.
Use as a replacement for lemon zest or as a garnish to the
centerpiece dish.
I've never been a lead or a supervisor or key-holder anywhere I've
worked.
Many flowers also have an anus; it is an opening at the base of their
bloom.
L006
There is a drive for transcendence that is implicit in even the most
sensual of desires.
I was going down a path that I'd never dreamed of taking, but there I
was, forging my way.
Struggling against the tide of disappointment, we continue to search
for a sweet one.
He stood up when the speaker gave anyone the out and suddenly
half the room quit as well.
Now if she could only drop forty-eight pounds and stop watching
Judge Joe Brown all the time.
The singularity of aesthetic self-enjoyment can never be dragged out,
into the light.
There is a drive for transcendence that is implicit in even the most
sensual of desires.
I was going down a path that I'd never dreamed of taking, but there I
was, forging my way.
Struggling against the tide of disappointment, we continue to search
for a sweet one.
He stood up when the speaker gave anyone the out and suddenly
half the room quit as well.
Now if she could only drop forty-eight pounds and stop watching
Judge Joe Brown all the time.
The singularity of aesthetic self-enjoyment can never be dragged out,
into the light.
L007
Remember, for each of these that the idea is that it can be used
intentionally to influence user behavior.
You have every reason to be tentative, closed and distrustful, and I
myself, would not trust any of us.
If I had a nickel for every time I had drunken sex when I didn't want to
I sure wouldn't be selling this shit.
The penultimate is really nothing in itself, such that anything could be
justified as penultimate of its own accord.
I know the only place on earth that will survive the apocalypse, and
what’s more I’ve been there.
Remember, for each of these that the idea is that it can be used
intentionally to influence user behavior.
You have every reason to be tentative, closed and distrustful, and I
myself, would not trust any of us.
If I had a nickel for every time I had drunken sex when I didn't want to
I sure wouldn't be selling this shit.
The penultimate is really nothing in itself, such that anything could be
justified as penultimate of its own accord.
I know the only place on earth that will survive the apocalypse, and
what’s more I’ve been there.
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John Lowther’s work appears in the anthologies, The Lattice Inside (UNO Press, 2012) and Another South: Experimental Writing in the South (U of Alabama, 2003). Held to the Letter, co-authored with Dana Lisa Young is forthcoming from Lavender Ink. John works in video, photography, paint and performance. He’s writing a dissertation to reimagine psychoanalysis as grounded in the lives of intersex and transgender people so as to broaden our appreciation of subjective possibility.
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