Base.1 (WORM)
Hippodamia, wax peg. Wooden leg of a pirate, grey worm, no the other. WHISPER. But why? Makes no sense, sentire, 4th conjugation, lots of extra i’s, oculi, pantheon, Rome, Peter’s chair, felt pads, scratch, wooden, hardwood horse, gives birth to destruction, angry young man, Neoptolemus, New Ptolemy? Dead in the Nile swimming like a coward, moo cow, milk, why drink the milk of another animal? Do adult cows drink milk? Only babies? Calves? Golden. Ground up gold dust. Drink it up, drink it up, drink it up…
Base.2 (LAW)
Blood, sanguine, happy or sad? Phlegmatic? Verdant, Green pastures, Nihil Mihi Deerit, Now it’s deest? A difference --, nothing lacking now or only in the future. Current deficiency, future satisfaction. To make enough. Un oeuf, bad joke, laughter, laughter, very strange phonetics, hooked on phonics, infomericals, two for one, shipping and handling, manual, instructions, the law, clarity, charity, poor clares, poor poor clares, minor brothers, no brothers by blood, only sister, only sister, only sister…
Base.3 (CENTER)
Purgation, cleansing, the board, bored the boor, uncultured, Philistines, uncultured, no cult? Nothing to worship? Center of life? Focus, locus, loki, gods, jokers, but serious Apollo? Only unchanged name? Too good of a name? Short short long. Short short long. Dayctl? Finger? Strange that digital and manual are opposites, but both from same parts of the body. Weird. Eye before E, Sea, Neighbor, Neighborhood, Stella Maris, Pray for the Wanderer, Sr. Mary Peter, Sr. Lawrence Elizabeth, Sr. Marlene -- no man’s name, no man’s name, no man’s name…
Base.4 (LIGHT)
Appreciation, depreciation, taxes, value, from where, unde, to where, quo, vadis, invade, vader, father, dark, a quark for mister mark, messrs smith and mchale, MC Hale, rapper’s delight, of the light, de luminibus, de lumine, de lucibus, de luce -- or just use the genitive, begat, beget, has begotten, rotten insides, gas round the viscera, vis, irregular, not measured, infinite, ineffable, apophatic, tragic? Just say NO, Nancy, red woman, horoscopes, the fortunes, potions, portions, port, carry, wine, portugal, iberia, intifada, wrong place, wrong place, wrong place…
Base.5 (CURRENCY)
Currency, flow of the river, Tiber, Jordan, Ganges, crypto, Rubicon and Rhine, shine, solet, light bearer, non serviam, really? Truely? A brew and blow, fermentation, distillation, retaliation, the wealth of Pluto, no longer a planet, was it ever? Health, sickness, lack of wellness, where to find a woman, gathering water, jethro’s daughter, in Midian, running from a murder, Aaron was the worder, back to the calf, a bath, warm thermae, thermos, lunch, avocado everyday, good fat, but boring, daily drift older, daily drift older, daily drift older...
Base.6 (WITCH)
Knowledge, the Gnostics, body and soul, flesh a prison, sarx to be cut, humors, it’s changing, it’s balanced, it’s static, no cable, tightrope walker, no net, always a net, hoops, can’t teach speed, always a constant -- of light, de luce, de lumine, or just use the genitive, memories forgotten, repressed, pressed down again, repelled, repulsus, pulse, blinking light, always red, always red, like a tabernacle beacon, a theater, no singing, please no singing, just give me some drama, or a drachma, or an obol, maybe a sesterce, a witch like Circe, like Circe, like Circe...
Base.7 (BOX)
Feet, foot, bipedal, makes us different? But look at the monkeys - Oxen, ox. A box, a screen, we all watch, your shows, you stream, no cable, no rope, consciousness, with knowing, rowing, rowing, rowing, trireme, a scene, shout loudly, accusations, ostracize, shun, ion, strange phonics, unstable Adam, uncut, uncultured Philistine missed the 8th day, more than a week, streak, a run -- naked. Fig leaf protection, selection, resurrection, io, a noun, a moon, a lover of Jove, bove, by ox, by oxen, bovibus, opposite of city is rus, make a fuss, make a fuss, make a fuss...
Base.8 (BLESSING)
Bells, bells, bells, Poe in the Bronx, no Thonx, very offensive, render your blessing, can’t take it back, even if you’re were fooled, Isaac I’m looking at you, moo, moo, moo, a cow, baby calf. GOLDEN. Come let me smell you, best sense for memory, hard to see -- through a glass darkly, but satisfaction in future, things about to be, gerundive, is this how it is? Repetitive, over, and over, under, down lower, slower, and slower, eventually ceasing, decreasing, unfolding, revealing, pull back the veil, pull back the veil, pull back the veil...
Base.9 (CLOUD)
Scansion memory failing: Apollo, not a dactyl, no name for his name, long short short a dactyl, finger of god, Iuppiter a dactyl, Apollo no name, short short long : U, long, short, short: Ü, long you, Übermensch, superman, Kal-El, El, Elohim, Yahweh, Adonai, El Shaddai, Daimon, Socrates, Diphthong, Under, Utilize, U hard to carve, make it a V, Venereal, of Venus, Übermensch author- a syphilic lunatic, philologist turned philosopher, Basel-based,Cappadocia, Turkish, Turkey, Hungary, Huns, Attila, Leo, cloud of witness, cloud of witness, cloud of witness...
Base.10 (Fruit)
Criss-cross applesauce, salsa de manzana, malum, medieval pun, no apple actually, a fruit, peri, no vowels around, round mound, rebound, back again, sir charles, no role models, Platonic, wide-shouldered wrestler, spectrum, Aunt Pat’s, prism, sixers, and flyers, four tails on logo, always must check, swear I drew it wrong as a youth, wasted while I was young, jail break, what did other people call it, half-ball unique, streets, block, build, aedifice, aedile, adulescens carnifex, youthful butcher, could be a wrestling name, all the same, all the same, all the same…
Base.11 (Expansion)
Vespucci, cartography, nomen clarissimum nunc, who would have thought? Eponymous like Romulus, but much less intentional, willful expansion, west, west, west, running toward the sun? Orient, Occidental, Obama for a moment, then NYC, Columbia, another explorer, another Italian, proud, Superbus, last king, bell ring, toll, tell, fell, occident, rise, Japan, Nippon, Germany, Deutschland, Greece, Hellas, Turkey was Rum, Rumulus, but drinking is haram, rum from the Islands, new land, Taino, tainted - Is it stained? Is it stained? Is it stained?...
Base.12 (God)
Young Once, strange little book, Pulitzer Prize, Hungarian, Hungary, Magyar, again with Attila, don’t confuse with Genghis, Kubla, Xanadu, roller skating, grease, Grease, Greece, Hellas, Attic, hidden places, upstairs, basement or cellar, living room or parlor, ottoman or hassock, ottomans haram hennessy, gooses of grey, all ales and ports, to carry along, safe haven, sinus, infection, white blood cells, leuk, alb, stole, by his stripes you will know him, zebra-god? Calf-god? Bread-God. Wine-God. intoxication, intoxication, intoxication...