 (trans, Michael Hofmann; two sentences 71 pages apart, joined at the hip?) They had done nothing wrong. But they were doomed…. The death house in Plötzensee is now Otto Quangel’s home. The solitary cell in the death house is his last address on earth. How to dress this up… put on its side (?) hoЯRor show in a mirror Plöt zen see — das koan that rimes with Wannsee Seine alpha bets spracht mild constraints ? Sie würden splice fore w/ hind bits harsh sprechen a firmer fit hah, maybe zee’s on zum Creation Science shtick ? Constellated in the abecedaries of the abyss (Oh, infamous kenophobe…) Mein sources fuse absent presence mit present absence
does one wan eye see ? [1] [1] Fallada’s novel is based on the actual case of a poorly educated, working-class couple who cleverly, bravely, ran the Berlin Gestapo in circles for three years by placing anti-Nazi postcards in public spaces; the Wannsee Conference was where the sociopathic Heydrich hatched “The Final Solution”; one of so-called “Creation Science’s” more duplicitous debate tricks involves cutting & restitching unrelated sentences from evolutionary biologists’ published work in order to ‘suggest’ counter, anti-Darwinian points (we once saw David Suzuki take the floor, mid-debate, to expose their shameless deceit); the italicized lines are from Adeena Karasick’s Ӕrotomania (pp. 57 & 61), & Ron Silliman’s The New Sentence (p. 147) re: the Lone Ranger’s mask—an absence or a presence; passing ref to Oulipo constraints, as in this abecedary serial poem itself; NB: “wan,” fr Old English wann— see? Stephen Bett is a widely and internationally published Canadian poet with 26 books in print (from BlazeVOX, Chax, Spuyten Duyvil, & others). His personal papers are archived in the “Contemporary Literature Collection” at Simon Fraser University. His website is StephenBett.com
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