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Certain Hazards of Living Without the Assumption of Timing Lisa Lubasch

Tall words wring hands, though not effortlessly The music of cinema, the music of trees Even in times of ease, the effort is more Taking a walk sometimes involves the perforation of crisis Estrangement is a thing we can feel but not always practice Step backwards if you want to hear the cinereous sounds of living How one can involve oneself in the world without letting go of the crisis The arrow produces a sound like an accompaniment But only when held in water Even when the edges are rippled, a sight like a sound uncovers itself We could make a deadline for ourselves and be sure to be firm about it Not knowing the solution to the problem lends heat to the crisis Before saying this the sentence splits off Tearing up these documents for good represents a willingness to let go of the      crisis Living life like that incarcerates our hearing but also our desire for      building Honestly sounds like that produce waterfalls of ballads Spitting ourselves out we walk up and down the metropolis States of imagining refer us back to the summits of sleeping Holding our heads in the vacuous sky we believe ourselves to be giants What the informant gives us are listings Listings keep us hoping for the cinereous task of living Beautiful limits invest us with the quality of being half-torn What presumptions there are about us concern the matter of our ending Ending and living are two similar and not incompatible functions Sending is also a way to subsist in a time of crisis. ** Certain hazardous visions begin with an assumption about timing This is how perception states the aim The music of learning approximates our understanding of living Cutting off the poem too quickly gives rise to a palpable sense of wronging Certain sung comparisons begin with assumptions about timing Living and being are not the same thing Not having a place in the city gives rise to concerns about living Living and learning not the same thing Learning that comparison takes time from living Believing and coming to learning are not the same thing The axis of learning is not the same as any axis of comparison The ethics of that comparison gives rise to objections about writing Writing and seeming are not the same thing Even if we refract the latter through a prism of reference The highlander bird gives rise to certain affiliations of being Not only in our showers but also in our cataracts and surges Being and learning are not the same thing. ** The excesses of caution so too intersect with the projects of living Being and changing give rise to patterns and also to outward perceptions In such being and changing we are given to being in crisis Being and changing are almost one and the same thing Not changing and not coming into the crisis is almost one and the same thing      with not living Being and living are not the same Such motions of discipleship give rise to outer appearances of changing Changing and deciding are not the same thing Certain learning gives rise to the motions of living These play out like patterns upon a perception One's perception of living is not like the action surrounding Cinematic gestures produce the same feeling Even if we let go of our futures it won't be without warning Being and living are not the same thing Housing us produces the desired effect of sheltering Certainly sheltering being is an applaudable thing Coming into being and living are not the same thing. ** Certain spoken effects of living are not without consequences Having and not-having are not the same in a comparison Being in rending the matter is a palpable consequence Even if there's listening in the apparent gathering Hearing and listening are not the same thing What gathers listening is not the same thing as what gathers functioning Outside of measuring another receiving beginning Telling of listening is not the same thing as imagining Layers of imaginings often refer to states of being This listening and imagining produce in us a heightened activity of       wandering Wandering and decision-making are not the same thing Entering gives us freedom to enter without otherwise belonging Narrowly escaping the crisis means never escaping what's contributing Not seeing is never believing Having ventriloquial feelings leads one to a feeling of opening The gatherings outside of one are not always the symbols of functioning Being and fathoming are not the same thing. ** Comic strips for the living are produced in a moment of crisis What divides us is our manner of making assumptions Succumbing to listening often means sustaining the feeling Certain manners of working begin with our feelings about timing To produce decisions about anything we must be involved with the process Having an understanding of ending does not give us license Succumbing to listening often means sustaining the feeling What this is involving is always on the axis of following Certain presumptions about following begin with being and listening Certain paradigms of living are not without consequences Chaos and living are not indescribable functions The glorious concert produces an indescribable effect. ** The price of living with difference is in the surroundings Horizons extend to living Evenings of unknown earnings conceal a collapse of a practice This disappearance is an hour of mourning Certain hours of living and not of fading effortlessly extend toward reciting Various patterns of being and of representing produce in us images of crisis Such a system for being can be at odds with a system of crisis. ** Extends to evenings of examining the virtue of living Even if the longing produces a narrowing Narrowing on the horizon produces the effect of seeing Seeing and learning are not the same thing With such narrowing of vision on the horizon and effortless seeing In conjunction with learning Being and narrowing not the same thing How can the cluster of sayings produce the said thing Not living and being but narrowing Narrowing toward a crisis With living and narrowing coming undone Each being not only living but narrowing and unearthing Seeking its location in the concourse of living Extending and narrowing toward the effortless flooding Being and living are not the same thing With such a one living and such a one narrowing Locating being in learning Being and learning are not the same thing Not the same, being and germinating. ** Certain popular conceptions of timing are not learning Certain hazards of dreaming are in the meadows of listening Certain assumptions breed prattle about timing and prattle about living Prattle about living is noticeably worse than prattle about timing Various models of listening and models of timing breed wasted assumptions Such a prattling about living and about listening is a sign of the times Missions take preference and we are certainly on our way to becoming honorable Such is the saying of numbers of beings Certainly that mission is not unavoidable Saying so gives rise to the efforts of aiming. ** Certain assumptions about listening begin with matter-of-fact aimings and       assumptions about living Some versions of learning borrow their figures from timing Certain assumptions about living are immersed in the practice of aiming To hear the allure of listening under the patterns of borrowing Curiously living and learning are not the same thing To see the patterns burning under the assumptions about living These patterns and assumptions also fit into our notions about timing Living and breathing function differently How can anything be more living than that which produces timing Truly living and breeding are not the same thing With patterns of learning and the aftereffects of mourning What assumptions about borrowing produce the expected thing. ** Certain patterns of living begin with patterns of thinking Certain patterns of thinking begin with patterns of speaking Speaking and thinking are disruptions Certain patterns of speaking and being are disruptions of patterns of knowing Certain knowing patterns begin with disruptions in thinking Thinking about patterns requires an inward thinking about everything Sometimes racing toward patterns produces inward assumptions Thinking about the burgeoning and not-burgeoning of things Because they are Because they are also thinking.