Fred Moten

1

primitism’s nostalgia is
built in them. Fabian tells us
this. but here’s the faculty meeting

a decision to
supposed to
no new lines

but if the line initiates a field
composed of extra year or sentence
we might wanna think about that

we waste a lot of
(yes ) helped a
with this basic stuff

a’attention
up to
work way from this grammar work

have you muh/fuh/ers been
about grammar someone of
the sophistication, been thru the

demonstrated
know what they doooooing it’s a
mutual exploitation (laughter) just

don’t call it mutual. it’s a nice
over lightly kiss you in the morning don’t
call instead

instead, let’s have multiple exams!
an area in ritual
of twenty twenty-five

books and
dance, folklore,
that effect

them pick the let them
fuck them
selves them rope

I’m not long, I’m not long
of preparation means they
better alignment, better alignment

I’m very concerned, very concerned
when I see exam areas
rather than exam areas

the faculty meeting is not the
Brooklyn meeting is not the
Cambridge meeting of the society of friends

2

reflex, argument and bullshit
(some flexibility, a warm brown hat for daddy
tried to give the hats back after christmas
and elizabeth want a picture frame. cat

testing was humane scan
list is prophylactic
‘ranean ocean wall list
should be a syllabus
a self-coercioneritable
prehistory of infantile
school’s phylonetic heritageapplause
and my name is so and so
could you please give me a great big round a’applause):
there is no question of truth in
performance studies, like or as the question
of the truth of performance studies
well argued too narrow but on the one
hand we don’t want idiosyncrasy

but if you argue it well, and its yours but not

your property like ours but what about well argued idiosyncrasy
the formation of the list is not a performance
it happens sometimes but not other times
and it doesn’t demand copyright but sharing, sharon, rose, karen
as if you were there, but she wants e-mail
and with the top or bottom of each class but

3

my class had no bottom and in any case
the bottom was good summer winter.

spring and bottom not that we have no

bottom but that the bottom was good.
        good bottom

da booooommm

boom boom boom boom

for a publishable essay?

how much work do you want
what kind of work
what kind of poetry will you kill.

what kind of embrace will you kill
what embrace will you kill
what embrace will you kill and

on the other hand swimming
blue in all this blue water?

travelling all that embrace

4

my class gave awnings from
  many regions. bursts
a shade and cool water from
             cross rivers. wonder if they took?