Bound Out
Chapter I
A package arrives!
Chapter II
Kennedy offed a republic
Unfurls what the russians
R’ waitin’ for
Oh! Virgin Land Loretta Porter Patsy
She weeps in
Her homesick coffee
He wrecks the car (again)
Chapter V
A legitimate English
Speaker can you ape a story
Ye citizens who speak
In a different way
Circumstance can enhance or eclipse nuance
Chapter V (Part Two)
A Father’s lesson: What?
A boy
Your age don’t know how
(Whiskey)
To tie his shoes
I’ll teach ya’
God-damn it
The tiresomeness of another’s life
Chapter VII
Miss Birmingham’s class:
YOU
are
A good reader
A good
reader?
Green Eggs Green Eggs Green Eggs Purple Cray
Ons Cray
Ons Sounder Alfred Hitch
Cock Three Investigators—-huh?
Cock?
Heh-Heh
Mad Magazine
Mad Magazine
Mad Magazine
Chapter IIXI
A Mother’s Narrative Falls To Question: Vy?
Vy Vy Vy
Vy did I ever…
Narrative questions question narrative
Vy did Jackie
Dat Greek… She hat every ting
A vidow should vant
The more popular you are
more vulnerable to homesickness & criticism
Chapter X
Part of what gives power its power
Is a complexity of attitude
Great Uncle Joe
visits
Look at that colored
Man
White girl &
Soon the whole country’ll
Be mulatto
BOOK TWO
A certain surrealism
Wears thin
Juxtaposition is most effective
When it seems earned
Another car job fifth blend ordinary
And extraordinary
Everyday and metaphysical
Chapter XII
Who’m I What’m I
Doing here
All stories are somehow survival stories
N-n-now Merry C.
N-not gonna be stuck
See…A hole life…si…
Krummy Building n’ Loan.
Parody: (i.e. see Mad Magazine.)
Chapter XIV
The measure of my power: Wrong to describe this
River journey in
High-falutin’ language. Huck thinks
On the page
His focalization not steady
Over entire narrative
Try eye-dialect
An intentional use
Of misspellings to convey characters
intellect education lack of
Chapter XVI
(A race to dénouement)
I’m leaving
Adolescence–its long negotiation
Self-dramatized
Characters observe & opine
Always influence a narrator’s voice
“I took a risk once. Shit.”
Chapter XVI – (part 2)
I see:
Orality of language has connection
To the art and if you ever hit me
Again You’ll find my pen
Inside your heart
Chapter XVI – (part 3)
A bully backs down:
(Don’t believe in objectivity; everything’s personal)
Go to god-damn hell
Don’t expect
I know what goes on
Wasn’t born yesterday
Been around
If it hadn’t been for you
If it hadn’t been for you
If it hadn’t been for you!
End of Book Two:
Determination sans Resource
The train
A Chaucer’s journey crossing the past
From the address book
Three hundred &
Seventeen dollars—stolen!
(Endure disappointments about yourself)
Fellow passengers Joad Gant Sister Carrie Karenina Kerouac Newman, A.E. Alger Little Eva & Angel back from Brazil & Anna
Back from Siam crowd
Similar narratives
But somehow
THEY END
different
Bound Out was published in Barrow Street
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