It’s Exciting to Become a Fact

for Benjamin Marcus
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photo credit: Kurt Fulton

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https://youtu.be/qpVxGD2S6v4

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How do I love this photo?

Let me count the ways.

The effortlessness with which

it conveys the spirit of the artist

and the body of the man

and the undertaken undertaking

of releasing just that span

of those delectable depictable

articulable Words which press

confessionally their best version

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of a reason for why they not

only ought to be reconstituted

palpably as art but as the symbol

and reality of all incarnate flesh.

And look now, there they are,

all buzzing in fresh molecules

of paper and of color and the faintly

dolorous gestalt of knowing living

wisely is the same as living wildly

and for it to know. which it must know,

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it is alive, to cultivate conditions

for the mildly manic mission to be

fructified that Benjamin will mark it

with his Marcus and that he will park us

with it in a front row seat which

overlooks no bleaker street than

Bleecker Street wherein we'll have

a barbecue of marbled beef, the most

arresting meat for words to find more

than belief that they have managed

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to get through to real existence.

Real existence is extraordinarily

impossible to prove, of course. But this

is just the premiere course. Benjamin

has more to cook than his vocabulary.

He's the constabulary force without

whom courses can't receive a license.

Oh it and he go on from here,

but we will leave the thing intact.

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It's exciting to become a fact!