"my blog contradicts"

From Tube Sock Army by Kim Duff.
The following was originally published by LINEbooks, Burnaby, BC.
Copyright 2008 Kim Duff.

my cultural production

today:
processing produced culture.
                               purchase

my local politik
is in the digital massification of


this is also a love poem:
a romantic notion of
globality
mired in the move sequence
distance.

IM's and comments
posted on my pages
my profiles
locally produced
globally disseminated

            the mailer daemon sent me a message
             to tell me my message was undeliverable

I am writing this email
to tell you that today I became postmodern
in a postgeographical sense

because there are no maps
  for these territories

                        my blog contradicts what
                        my myspace profile
                        suggests.

dispersed identity
I am not to you what I am to them
                    identity
                    makeshift and posted
                    ephemerally temporal

                                            post-spatial?

I thieved these ideas
from the emissary of time.
a sickness called nostalgia

                           we logged in
                           and timed out
mediated
your cultural production
budged in line
and took the last moment:

wedged in at
the moment of blame
working out connections
at the crux of biography and production

                          the claustrophobia
                          of urban capitalists
                          pushes us further

                                    desires for need.


trappings trapped
in an architectural scale of time
we exist in the riffing off
of Banana Republic khakis and
coffee.

                     coffee and khakis.

the ceiling of online banks
pushes my banking needs
into a nighttime obsession
checking balances against
checks bouncing
a metronome of debts
we flow in
whisper

your password softly