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Monsieur Robertson. See you with Buffon
And balloons at yr. back

and we're way above the rooftops now:
city of the word

as the blackbird re-lids its eye
backwards through vapour:

Ira Aldridge, Manchester's
first black actor & what his wonder audience.

Emily Dickinson's spectrograph.

Etienne Gaspard Robertson in the Couvent des 
  Capucines 1799
Fug of blood & vitriol: phantasmagoria.

Ah the chill
To knock 'em dead his way

to gather us all up into the bosom of a divine company

skelliwag
ragtime, rag-pickers, the 'male gaze'

& Écriture féminine.

On Emley Tower windsway: sea to shining sea

to catch, to summon, bizarre fiddle
Shake rattle and Roll – the censored lyrics

The robot of the audience blotto in a casket.

Time is transportable, for those in the know
Tranströmer in Huddersfield
Space is not empty its open

Periodic table: audience
Begins in gold, ends in cerium

Drax power station produces
As much greenhouse gas as two cities

where does audience end/begin

Aprille atmos to leafhead
Big-eyed starting up a.m. first
chorus : sky-parliament

is mind in sound & are there places
in wavescapes to sounding

layers, overtones, call commune
others conflict

It's all time, time for readers, listeners, warps
in different
                      wefts

podium behaviour/podium behavior
possibly converging
strains

even pre-gig opening nerves

May fecundate
                    apotropaic
fairground huxter

poetry's portable voodoo
as jack and jill doe to white-out

as in the music of Tinariwen each beat ongoing
swings back under itself

bizarre fiddle: proceeding by indirection
spectralities; caller, pitch

ghosting, distort & oscil 

                        lot

shimmers swerving -- who makes
demands of an audience's demands

to court an audience
to give audience to

gripped ephemeron
acousmatic
changes space

is this the last bus to Castleford
gestural and mapping, percussive

page; information does not flow

directly from the text :diversion, personal relationships,
identity, surveillance, information
  which could be useful for living

eg) holiday bargains

Uses and Gratifications:
new media forms have 'come along'
(eg video games, the internet)

Ede and Lunsford try to create situations where
audience is "fictionalized"

Why do people watch television, for example

e.g. When you mean "for example," use e.g.
abbreviation of exempli gratia.
When you mean "that is," use "i.e"

audience begins with gold and ends with cerium

between rite and ceremony
quietly corner st peter's square

children read names in unison
those who died from asbestosis.

Hey Presto. The nuanced audience
from dene and need and acid and niece

and din and motor. Auditor
agora to maegaron

this ain't no buckshee senecan amble
this ain't no humanist boys

practising their periods

this ain't no eidetic idyll
or sigil

This is Etienne Gaspard Robertson
with his doolally pell-mell gallery of ghosts

scrimming their harem
guyz 'n' galz, this is the guff
the lowdown
the real palookas looking for their ass
this is
zorro's whip
this is
Maybe and Hasbeen and Will be
all over your 'rondissement
baby, this is the voice
in your cellar
coming up for cocoa beans.