Lewis LaCook
Since 2001
Works in Lorain, Ohio United States of America

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Lewis LaCook makes things. He is a programmer/poet. He likes unstable objects. He doesn't eat enough. Send him all your money.
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Not Sleeping in Moon Riddle


I'm the man who cries
because the moon won't turn
corners with me. In this
prolific universe, certainties

can resusitate a telescope
from almost certain boredom
on a screened-in porch;

in restaurant chatter, my love
orders the potato-skins, I

a sliver of my own shadow
uncoupled from the tracks.
I know it's me because the kids

still throw rocks, even when
I turn the corner. Their laughter

follows me much the same way
you do: all purple and overfed,
scrolling out from under my feet.
Why do you waste so much time

moving so far away, when
even when I turn the corner I'm
the same man?

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The Milk of Venus: 17 && 18


17

Each one of us has something unique to give. Cars
become mobile environments; comfortably entombed,
drivers experience travel as the unfurling of a
landscape remote from themselves. The walkman defines
a personal sphere of music; the cellphone, a
but-for-thou solipsism (there are customers at the
store in which I work who never leave the confines of
that personal, fantasmally communicative sphere during
the whole transaction; there's no-one at either end of
the circuit, the cashier is a void function, not to be
greeted or conversed with, just as the cashier
suspects that the customer's conversational partner is
also a void function, only there to stamp community as
another commodity conspicuously consumed).
The saddest ones are the ones with no cellphone, the
ones who keep their silent negation of the cashier
with no diversion. They toss their goods on the
counter, spill their money in a scattering fan of
abyss; I'm nothing to them, even then...
Everyone can make a significant and heartfelt
contribution to American pride.

18

"The moon," I thread through Baby's lips, "is walking
toward the counter with a cart stiff with milk. Bulbs
in a store can dizzy a skin until the regular bleat of
the register replaces the heart. Milk fumbles from
cart to counter, the old moon grunting with each
gallon. Baby watches wrinkles around the old moon's
eyes pant for the hard shaft of light that lies hotly
down inside them."
"But Baby," she stitches across my mouth, "isn't all
light in a store urgent for logos?"
"Only lies could be so beautiful," I embroider from
Baby's tongue. "The moon is beautiful because he is a
lie. An exclamation of the most pedestrian rouge dots
his cheeks; plastic lashes clatter on powdered flesh.
He's switched the price tags of all his products to
lower prices; the coupons won't even scan..."

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Duc Thuan: The Box and its freedom


Duc Thuan: The Box and its freedom

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The net being a medium that transcends boundaries, I've often wondered why so much of the net art and digital literature I see is either American, British, or Canadian...

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The Milk of Venus: 8 & 9 & 10


8

In the grip of a comfortable stillness.
After a very hot shower, I step out onto the glass
porch for a smoke. The sky today looks like pavement,
dirty ice ground to a crisp plummet of wisps spilled
like respiration, like breathing fell over and
dispersed among the minutes I have before work floods
the space around me with harsh immaculate light and
nowhere to sit down. The glass porch is filthy; we
dump our cigarette butts in plastic bags to be taken
in and fed to the garbage inside. This one, though,
has escaped, and squats contentedly on the floor just
in front of the table between our chairs.
Description is no more true than poetry might be if
living re-arranged itself according to December's
movement across the inertia of birds forgotten in
migration to complexity.
I walk somewhere more basic: I walk to work. At lunch
premonitions of the predictable ice storm enthuses
everyone, even those stamped with dread. These tart
accents and translucent shuffles refuse to submit to
our feedings amid links and iterative loops. At the
center of Baby literatures swoon. ~I mean to drown
interactively~ I would tell Baby, if I could find her
in this seamlessness of scene.
You pick up the snowglobe, forever outside. You shake
it furiously.

12/4/02

9

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12/6/02

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12/6/02

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