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We fired a good soldier's version of the AK47 at the blank page and the empty canvas as the war raged on 
A four foot square of aluminium becoming luminous and deformed 

"see a citizen split in two by lightning?" Kenneth Koch 

"April 1972
Atlantic Night (in City Pond, a group performance at City Park)., 
(re) presents elements of the Titanic story with five wooden boats and 'passengers' in White Star Line jackets"

"Yet could not these young men, put in another profession, 
Succeed admirably, say at sailing a ship?" Kenneth Koch 


The final handout of that semester:
Drama Instructor 
Tomorrow we will meet, however
I will be myself one day before a serious illness. 
You will be a new ambulance driver
The following day I will meet with you again 
As you know, an increasing effort will be expected of you 
Outside of this class. 

Performance and Poetry, October 12, 1972 9 PM
"The audience lines up single file beside a ten inch refractor telescope pointed from a window of a downtown Iowa City loft, In the eyepiece, the video image of silent performer cast for the lovely roundness of her face. 
A placard near the telescope carried the text of a poem, which is also the title for the event:
On the Moon
Is a Sea
In the shape
Of a Mouth" 
A bright circle, she was both the source and the reflected light as she silently mouthed the poem;
The monitor, its own moonrise, roped to the chimney of my apartment builing two blocks away. 

Our Inconstant Air, May 19-20, 1973 8 PM
"I sit center stage as a urethane foam cloud 3' by 5' is set over my head and shoulders. 
On it is projected a small square window through which is seen a cloudless blue sky. 
Behind me on the wall are the neon words, also in blue, "Mountains" "Ocean" Two possible vacations. 

"but the blond man 
stuck his head
Out of a cloud and recited poems about the east and thunder." Kenneth Koch

"Though how quickly the years
have gone by since I have been doing Too "Kenneth Koch. "The Artist"

My art was the light at either end of the tunnel. A double MFA
The object becoming the idea of the object. 
I had claimed a three hour course for both MFA's A letter arrived from the registrar; no further division was possible. 
The apartment was empty and the car packed. 

"And she breaks my chains of straw and we walk down
the road behind us the hideous fumes Kenneth Koch "Fresh Air" 

The MFA was now a choice 
It was clear to me ten years later, as each semester disappeared once again that this action was also a ""piece"

"but what can I 
describe with these words? States" 
States symboilzed and divided by two." Kenneth Koch 

Directions for the final exam of the art history survey
"Compare and contrast"

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We fired a good soldier's version of the AK47 at the blank page and the empty canvas as the war raged on A four foot square of aluminium becoming luminous and deformed "see a citizen split in two by lightning?" Kenneth Koch "April 1972 Atlantic Night (in City Pond, a group performance at City Park)., (re) presents elements of the Titanic story with five wooden boats and 'passengers' in White Star Line jackets" "Yet could not these young men, put in another profession, Succeed admirably, say at sailing a ship?" Kenneth Koch The final handout of that semester: Drama Instructor Tomorrow we will meet, however I will be myself one day before a serious illness. You will be a new ambulance driver The following day I will meet with you again As you know, an increasing effort will be expected of you Outside of this class. Performance and Poetry, October 12, 1972 9 PM "The audience lines up single file beside a ten inch refractor telescope pointed from a window of a downtown Iowa City loft, In the eyepiece, the video image of silent performer cast for the lovely roundness of her face. A placard near the telescope carried the text of a poem, which is also the title for the event: On the Moon Is a Sea In the shape Of a Mouth" A bright circle, she was both the source and the reflected light as she silently mouthed the poem; The monitor, its own moonrise, roped to the chimney of my apartment builing two blocks away. Our Inconstant Air, May 19-20, 1973 8 PM "I sit center stage as a urethane foam cloud 3' by 5' is set over my head and shoulders. On it is projected a small square window through which is seen a cloudless blue sky. Behind me on the wall are the neon words, also in blue, "Mountains" "Ocean" Two possible vacations. "but the blond man stuck his head Out of a cloud and recited poems about the east and thunder." Kenneth Koch "Though how quickly the years have gone by since I have been doing Too "Kenneth Koch. "The Artist" My art was the light at either end of the tunnel. A double MFA The object becoming the idea of the object. I had claimed a three hour course for both MFA's A letter arrived from the registrar; no further division was possible. The apartment was empty and the car packed. "And she breaks my chains of straw and we walk down the road behind us the hideous fumes Kenneth Koch "Fresh Air" The MFA was now a choice It was clear to me ten years later, as each semester disappeared once again that this action was also a ""piece" "but what can I describe with these words? States" States symboilzed and divided by two." Kenneth Koch Directions for the final exam of the art history survey "Compare and contrast"