Allen Fisher
Watusi
In Memoriam
Barry MacSweeney and Doug Oliver
5.i
We are dying in April showers
falsehood of sweet options
The geneticist joins us for lunch
The garden is rosy
I can smell metal
lift from the bleach dew
surrounded in bitterness
even though I am the spinner, whose
music willing did mask
with spacetime talk, in rested weeds
oderant one
a new breed of men and
women spend their measured
meal counting
between one and two in the afternoon
36 people walked
passed the bus stop.
4.i
Tired of walking marks
the reader reaches dizziness
energy and position exchange values
experience distinguished from information
an international convention to return a stolen
mesh of organic and abstract
economic products
commodity and
peddled possessions
wandered at random,
debated as an order,
“ in a congealed state”
the imagined petrified
“
substitutable”, in Fit
theory, a personal relation to things,
1.i
The Inspector lifted her glass emptied it,
I simply wanted to label the axons, it was only,
The Geneticist ordered more cocktails,
coincidental that cell bodies become involved.
Weren't you using a modified gene trap?
When I trapped my first gene I used a
placental alkaline phosphatase, produced
I was very taken by the recognition,
a bicistronic transcript from the enhancer
two encoded proteins.
Using these traps you can identify
gene functions in the brain.
1.ii
You have to accept an element of risk.
Well, in the process of introducing transgenic markers
the genes began to mutate. Obviously you
balance uncertainty with a confidence curve.
You can compare this to economic conditions
The vague fear of the unknown doesn't help.
knowledge of recombinant DNA has put the scares about,
broader social problems,
1.iii
taboo and classification systems proposed by the Anthopologist
transformed into biological pollution.
The Inspector checked her watch, You can calculate
the risks within acceptable margins of error.
This need to experience
the ideas of a work as they exist in the work
ever-prepared to apply a systematic interpretation
1.iv
the tropology of the argument
in a locality under authority
The good outnumbered and everything for sale
love truth justice
stripped naked in courtesy and beauty
afraid and released from mere dependence
on speculation, Truth finally
not simple but tied to reward
Conscience's insistence upon complexity
The seat of impetuosity organised
in familiar grooves of self-interest,
given this opportunity, preys upon itself.
4.ii
released as criminal offence
through spurious adaption to realistic needs
denotated as “thing”
without truth
dominated with colour
without locality
an expansive illusion isomorphic with cosmos
persuaded that we can't make a difference
attached to things
the sheer quantity of the specific
due to an inside
antagonist to the self
dream cabinet, opposing diodes
revolving in a box.
5.ii
When taste brings death
and the wall is smashed
genetically modified or simply cloned
a sinking music on a sacred top
spins inspiration like is was truth
united
with reed of burlap
how the head long and birth
rosy in dawn shop
delays the float
the oracle of a narrator's
smear-guided flight
indicator synaloepha
followed by a draught
This compromise and talk down
beckons wrath. She begins to
question this. Her balm starts switching
6.i
Offended by reliance on measurement
a contrast of quantum-field and symmetry
unification at a scale too large to study
held beneath pigmented tension
I was not in the garden
but heard a thrush cracking snail shells
the constant beat larger than the time of flight
a question of locality discussed in phase space
in face of contradictions resulting from measurement
without influence of orientation some
mechanical predictions impossible to mimic
by realistic street occasions
grains sinking to the base of a coffee
2.i
The International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium used a hierarchical
mapping and sequencing strategy to construct the working draft of the
human genome. This clone-based approach involves generating an overlapping
series of clones that covers the entire genome. Each clone 'fingerprinted'
on the basis of the pattern of fragments generated by restriction enzyme
digestion. Clones selected for shotgun sequencing
and the whole genome sequence reconstructed by map-guided assembly
of overlapping clone sequences.
At the time of the pilot phase the sequencing efforts were renewed to
develop clone-based maps covering specific regions of the genome. To
construct these regional maps, we screened artificial chromosome clones
for sequence-tagged site markers,
2.iii
Techno-inauthenticity signals
orgiastic return encourages
indifference boredom the demonic
levels irreplaceable response of self
reliance localised misunderstands
individual as a role, not a person
persona, not existence
one speechless carriage
filled with sounds of departure
2.iv
goodness given
“ dissymmetry of the gift that is also death”
subjects receivers as law
another kind of death
irreplaceability confined
from the site of death
calls to responsibility
“ No one can die ..... in my place.”
2.ii
fingerprinted the positive clones, integrated them into the existing
maps, and selected the largest, intact clones with minimal overlap
for sequencing.
In three years, to keep pace with the ramping up of the sequencing effort,
the ongoing efforts to construct the whole-genome bacterial artificial
chromosome map were increased approximately tenfold. This map allowed
the integration of a range of data, including fluorescence in situ hybridisation
cytogenetic clone localisations, landmark data, obtained by polymerase
chain reaction and hybridisation screening, clones from other libraries
with associated map data, and working draft and finished clone sequence
and associated electronic polymerase chain reaction landmarks.
Together, the human genome clone map and the anchored sequence map provide
synergistic resources for future analysis.
6.ii
glued to internal consciousness visible
photons in selected in breath cascades
multiply-connected visible light
from birefringent crystal balls
predict two output channels and an adjustable
orientation, a scheme in which settings are changed
during flight, and consequent locality partly realised
in practice instead replace each polariser
with a system involving a random periodic switch
to significantly violate distance and levels of confidence
influences faster than thought allowing separate
parts of the free will become entangled
deeply felt physical existence somewhat a non-local
aloneness and without tangible proof.
5.iii
gate of a stair well
near do well
create share bell flick from dimmer switch
breaks the lead a pitch
of a night top of
the stair's falls ebb
shock at a stare gate
of the light trap
flicker in brain sight
green yellow to blue light
orange lilac to red
damson shed
ripens juice in the heat
reddens sheet
“ Stop it!”
The Painter turns to the others
5.iv
In morning pink striations lift
proceed and dew us
in a switch from dream
levitated and warm breath
on trees in window and a stream
flicker of light and wings
in distance call sounds amazed
as she rested from love in array
looked on the Primavera dawn
and on the opposite wall
surfing towards flowerfall
lifts head to speech
“
What's going on?” she asks
Shared boldness admonishes her,
disrupts ascesis and
diegesic representation encased in
a third-person narrative
3.i
A general virtualisation
without conscience sustains
the aesthetic of disappearance
a science of truth removal
without momenergy's particularity
an endless back-fed
telescoped advice in acceleration.
Abuse deemed absent without
universal gravity's pursuit of limit-performance.
Loss of local time cancels
any reality of distance
a substitution that mobilises
destruction of cultures and geography,
a local exterior to all
in situ, precisely localised.
3.ii
In accumulated wealth
in speed its concentration
reduces distances from temporal compressions
to tele-surveillance spread
a soft stupor enumerated in
victims of reversal
a noisier foolishness where
flowers bloom among radioactive fire engines
kinetosis for traveller-voyeurs
in preparation for instant transmission weightlessness
I can no longer walk
back on my feet at high speed
I can't hug or see light my
embrace and eyesight devour each other.
4.iii
Substitutability persists relates
distance and enlivened order
Materials and how he thought them
inexplicably intertangled
in place through connection
his ecological niche
liberated from single location
4.iv
promotes a social set-up the
site hovering over a range of edges
bundled kinesthetic situation
in fields of perceptions solved
altogether through walking
more important than locality a
punctuated equilibrium
records this onto film.
3.iii
A process of substitution placed
affect in self-consuming gunfire
a discourse from definity of place
acquired rationalisms
of knowledge and ratio
without bend frozen process
typology of before renewed
in representation scattered over
visible surfactant unfolds
on mortuary ground
exclusion of existential relation to
what this becomes through saying it
3.iv
then scansion contrasted to paratactic
delight not surprise hence
a calculus of possible coordinates
analyses situation
miniaturised complexity fudged,
it is enough to fix the image
as paradigm, reiteration that it
happened, a gesture of setting aside
rifted lapse of an ecstasy
without identity
hidden inside a system
invincible summation.
5.v
Now enforce a far unfitter rasp,
For clones burn to change my open needs,
and rave out of nights and
Gentleman's Relish paraded sleep
in long silence
too smashed, the sacred regiment
to raise the ground in leaves of
dull tongue
fetter the wars and loves moralised
as song
rendered inexcusable
in prolepsis
the warning signs
and flesh yield
pulls as they clone
to spark through song
our tendered pants
out throws the cited mode.
last updated May 15, 2003