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The Hell's Angels try not to do anything halfway, and anyone who deals in extremes is bound to cause trouble, whether he means to or not. This, along with a belief in total retaliation for any offense or insult, is what makes the Hell's Angels unmanageable for the police and morbidly fascinating to the general public.

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The 'open text' often emphasizes or foregrounds process, either the process of the original composition or of subsequent compositions by readers.

Compositions, Literature, Poetry, Process, Text
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I was eventually to become one person, gathered up maybe, during a pause, at a comma.

Become, Comma, Eventually, Pause, Pauses, Persons

The idea of the person enters poetics where art and reality, or intentionality and circumstance, meet.

Art, Idea, Ideas, Person, Reality

This poem is one of a series, all of them elegiac in intention, and subject to the strange forces of mourning that let loose illogical developments, into impossible configurations of thought. The poem is built of non-sequiturs, because that's what's left in the wake of the death. We cannot follow the dead, whether they are persons or ideas. Instead we remain, but in a situation that, in their absence, makes no sense.

Development, Forces, Ideas, Mourning, Series, Wake

To some extent, each sentence has to be the whole story.

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People must flatter their own eyes with their pathetic lives. The things I was saying followed logically the things that I had said before, yet bore no relation to what I was thinking and feeling.

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