Frag Meant Meat
http://www.bpnichol.ca/archive/audio/not-what-siren-sang-what-frag-ment
Not What the Siren Sang But What the Frag Ment (for Margaret Alison)
From the 7 ¼ floppy record borders included in the box bp, published in February 1967 by Coach House Press (Toronto, Ontario).
Appeared in
Konfessions of an Elizabethan Fan Dancer
Konfessions of an Elizabethan Fan Dancer is Nichol's very first book. Originally published in England by Bob Cobbing in 1967, and then in Canada in 1973 by Nelson Ball's Weed/Flower Press
New edition with introduction and notes by Nelson Ball, Coach House Press, 2004
http://www.bpnichol.ca/archive/documents/konfessions-elizabethan-fan-dancer-1969
Note how the Title Lines align.
NOT WHAT THE SIREN SANGThe first stanza is built up out of anagrams.
BUT WHAT THE FRAG MENT
leaf autumn sky"umantu" looks like "ubuntu" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_philosophy — a trick of a sky kiss
flea umantu kys
And so for day 2336
06.05.2013