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Nothing
© 2000 by A.M. Hudson
I've made a few attempts but the most accurate
would be a blank page. It is interesting though. Thought on the
issue did give birth to a realization. The word nothing. I looked
it up.
1 a) no thing; not anything;
naught b) no part, element, trace, etc. "Nothing of kindness
in him"
2 a) something of little or no value, seriousness, etc.; trifle
b) a person considered to be of no value or importance
n.
3 nonexistence; nothingness
4 a thing that does not exist
5 a) something of little or no value, seriousness, etc.; trifle
(see also SWEET NOTHINGS) b) a person considered to be of no
value or importance
6 a naught; zero; cipher
I've always loved space. No, not outer
space, just space. I don't fill the page with elements I mix
them with space. I realized in college that space was something.
Well, nothing is something too. It is just no thing and I have
misunderstood this word for more than 50 years.
I suppose I would gladly let this stand
as my self portrait. The understanding that if rocks have a spirit,
then so maybe does space. Nothing is something that may have
a spirit as well.
A.M. Hudson
August 10, 2000
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Tattered & Torn
scanned photographs, objects and face -- colors from
misaligned sequential scans, 9 x 14"
© 1997 by J.R Compton
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Webcam Self-Portrait
© 2000 by Michael Helsem
Entry for the Card Catalogue
minor writer
collected here
helping maybe
someone searching
(the first syllable of
each line spells out my name).
Clerihew
Michael Richard Helsem
was born beneath a veldt sun.
Lacking intrinsic glamour
he got to be real good at grammar.
Wrote this the other day
but i don't like it:
The Language
of the Land
I am a fathomed & a
furtive thing;
A sky between weathers; Druid indigo
Worn by a clown; fiercely shy, i give
To strangers yet withhold from closest; book
Elliptical, & candlelit the game;
Obsessed, skeptical, loopy with homemade kif;
Architect of vanished Nineveh;
And sometime after me they'll
reck my runes.
Self Portraits
words
© 2000 by Michael Helsem
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