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juxtaposition 1

by Gregory Severance

there are two things ` but were a simplification
a dictionary and the ` of the redundance of
country ` the tedium which
think of reason ` habitually we harbored
it looks like it ` to alleviate our regulations
what looks like it ` and knacks immediately
`
it would be a ` think of a use for a
devastating blow to ` paragraph a sentence
forfeit the beauty ` is exhausted by have
were I to do it I ` they been there with
would be stranded in ` him
a desert void of an ` a useful and useful if
oasis I don't know ` you add house you have
how to navigate a ` a paragraph he looks
dromedary and I ` like his brother that is
have a hunch I will ` a whole sentence
never learn this is ` dogs get tired and want
an encapsulated ` to sleep this is not a

[may 27-28, 1997]

This piece is composed in quadrants as such:

1.1
Gertrude Stein: How To Write (p 19)
(New York, Dover Publications, Inc., 1975)
Originally published by Plain Edition, Paris, in 1931 in an edition limited to 1000 copies

1.2 & 2.1
Margueritte and Orion: Don't Call Me Harvey
Published in digital form by New Worlds (Matthew Paris & Paul F. Peacock) 1996
Orion's words.

2.2
Gertrude Stein: How To Write (p 27)
(New York, Dover Publications, Inc., 1975)
Originally published by Plain Edition, Paris, in 1931 in an edition limited to 1000 copies

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