Air
Baez, Joan
Bauhaus
Beach Boys, The
Bears, The
Beastie Boys, The
Beat Rodeo
Beck
Beirut
Belew, Adrian
Belly
Berlin
Beulah
Big Star
Billy Nayer Show, The
Black Flag
Black Uhuru
Black, Frank
Bottle Rockets
Bowie, David
Bragg, Billy
Brannigan, Laura
Breeders, The
Burrell, Kenny
Butthole Surfers
Buzzcocks
Camper Van Beethoven
Cake
Chilton, Alex
Cleary, Jon
Clinton, George
Costello, Elvis
Coulton, Jonathan
Court and Spark, The
Cracker
Dead Kennedys, The
Dead Milkmen, The
Decemberists, The
Dickies, The
DiFranco, Ani
Doe, John
Dr. John
Eskimo
fIREHOSE
Flaming Lips, The
Fountains of Wayne
Franti, Michael (with Charlie Hunter)
Funky Meters, The
Gabriel, Peter
George, Inara
Gone
Grass Roots, The
Grateful Dead, The
Grizzly Bear
Guthrie, Arlo
Harding, John Wesley
Heat, Reverend Horton
Heron, Gil Scott
Hitchcock, Robyn
Husker Du
Iguanas, The
Jarreau, Al
JayHawks, The
Jazz Butcher, The
Kelly Jones
Living Colour
Lobos, Los
Lovett, Lyle
Marsalis, Wynton
Marley, Ziggy
Mike Viola
Minus Five, The
Morphine
Movie Stars, The
negativland
Newsom, Joanna
Old 97s, The
Oranger
Osborne, Anders
Overwhelming Colorfast
Pavement
Pee
Pere Ubu
Pixies, The
Plays Monk
Polyphonic Spree
Prince
Ramones, The
Redman, Joshua
Reed, Lou
Replacements, The
Residents, The
Richman, Jonathan
Rollins, Sonny
Roy Hargrove
Seagal, Jonathan
Seeger, Pete
Semisonic
Shocked, Michele
Shriekback
Silver Spun Pickups
Sioux, Siouxsie
Sippy Cups, The
Sisters of Mercy, The
Snappin’ Box, A
Squeeze
Stone Temple Pilots
Sugar
Sutton, Tierney
Television
They Might Be Giants
Thinking Fellers Local Union 282
Throwing Muses
Trip Shakespeare
Tyner, McCoy
Uncalled For, The
Uncle Tupelo
Vega, Suzanne
Violent Femmes
Voice Farm
Wailers, The
Wainwright, Loudin III
Waits, Tom
Wilco
Wolfgang Press, The
X
Yellow Man
Yo La Tengo
Young, Neil
Zircus
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This is it.
This is the one, for me.
Expressed precisely,
concisely.
Near perfection.
I tumble down
at your feet.
Submit it!
and for your box-stacking pleasure....
http://www.tcpulse.com/2006/04/20/ac/printingtothesky/
great link e -- definitely worth the click through. if you like boxes.
-Cecil
to hold against
the pull top boxes feel
their natural urge to tumble
This part confuses me -- where is the break?
to hold against the pull//top boxes feel their...
OR
to hold against//
the pull(-)top boxes feel their natural urge...
is pull-top a compound? are the boxes feeling the pull or the urge? Grammar = sticky wicket, and yet w/o it, meaning is obscured.
this part tripped me over and over. I see the rest very clearly, I feel the awe, the man vs machine, the intricacies of industry, etc. But the wording in those 2-3 lines is a possum-trap and my leg's caught. Must...chew...way..out...
lb: interesting -- no intentional confusion there. it's sposed to read as as the pull (that) boxes up top feel...their natural urge, etc etc.
will ponder....
-Cecil...
Yes, yes. I actually like this no-holds-barred image of tumbling, tumbling down, no stopping, no breaks, nothing to break the momentum of the ... ahh...!
I feel like something of the flow 'breaks' a bit for me when I reach this:
"to hold against
the pull top boxes feel"
but I'm not sure what to offer beyond that. I think my favorite aspect of this poem is that it comments on something seemingly ordinary, something that we all wonder about when walking through a warehouse but who ever says it?
-jade