Author: Nada Gordon

just

undone.

(written several thanksgivings ago and re-posted here, a day late, for your leftover pleasure)

Fasten off wattle (using red). Attach red to any head-cluster
insane fasten of secure ends. Make sure wings
hang free so they appear to “flap”. Repeat for red wattle:

wrap around your finger to form spirals. Hang snood red
on neck. Cut around red or wattle. To create eyes, draw
a black void on each pom-pom, then cut out all yellow and

glue construction in place. Perverse people can order
wattle dimsum dumplings in New York’s Chinatown.
Uninflate “nose” at one end, then knot off the wattle. To make

turkey talk, cut out a pair of small felt triangles and glue
them to opposite sides. What is the bright red appendage?
Loose changes in your neck can make you look older.

It feels like your ear lobe. Carefully moisten a V-shape
arising from the forehead. Glue on two googly eyes and fill up
with blood. Make the turkey’s lungs knot together

in center of folded napkin (do not inflate them).
You put your whole wattle in
You put your whole wattle out
You put your whole wattle in
And you shake it all about.

I don’t dare write a truthful personal ad: “Enlarged pores, dozens
of new age spots, emergent wattle. Boop-bleep-boop-
whooo-blip I’m Ronald Reagan. I’m … mind?” As in mammals,

birds have a four-chambered heart; however,
a Turkey’s heart is proportionately larger and more powerful.

Drew Gardner conducts Mel Nichols, Elisabeth Workman, and Nada Gordon in an improvised poetics orchestra at the Zinc Bar, November 22, 2009

Favorite lines from the Ted Greenwald/ Kit Robinson reading at the Poetry Project last Wednesday:

TED:

as the meaning continues into the wee wee, the freak stays in the picture

everything will be f-f-fine

mash my potatoes, you shiitake

bad eagle advice

flaming gibberish

absolute certainty pushed to egg cream

the mods know: sit on the overture

being an undead has its own energy

KIT:

that’s perfect, thanks munch

combustible authoring tools

mid-Victorian taco junket

the unbearable penis of boring

man in seersucker brain

did not have big yellow brain

when in the course of humid events

I’d like to talk to you about that second Louie

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What a great reading!

Thanks, Ted!

Thanks, Kit!

HEY L.A. PEOPLE PLEASE GO SEE THIS IT SOUNDS SO GREAT AND PLUS ONE OF MY FILMS IS IN IT!

Intermittent Delight:
Gender and the Body in Contemporary Found Footage Filmmaking

Curated by

Jaimie Baron
Ph.D. candidate,
Cinema and Media Studies, Department of Film, Television and Digital Media, UCLA

Andrew Hall
M.A. student,
Cinema and Media Studies, Department of Film, Television and Digital Media, UCLA

FILMS TO BE SCREENED:

I Love (Hate) You: Gloria (Kate Raney, 2007, 6:10m)

Intermittent Delight (Akosua Adoma Owusu, 2006, 4:20m)

They have a name for girls like me. (Julie Perini, 2009, 6m)

Anything for My Gal (Anthony Hays, 2008, 4:17m)

About Town (Marnie Parrell, 2006, 4m)

Dream of Me (A. Moon, 2007, 9:30m)

XXX (Dinorah de Jesus Rodriguez, 2007, 3m)

Is It True Blondes Have More Fun? (Dinorah de Jesus Rodriguez, 2006, 0:58m)

Pledge (Ann Steuernagel, 2006, 6m)

I Am Man (Elisa Kreisinger, 1m)

The Ship (Brandon Downing, 2009, 4:50m)

Speechless (Scott Stark, 2008, 13m)

The Garden of Life (Nada Gordon, 2009, 10:06m)

Nana120 (Kristy Norindr, 2009, 1:20m)

Her Heart is Washed in Water and Then Weighed (Sasha Waters Freyer, 2006, 12:45m)

This word-cloud was generated from my lifetime-so-far of facebook updates.

Thrilled, thrilled, to have been directed to People Like Us (collage movie website) by recently-discovered-neighbor Jim Supanick!