Life Numerically
From Plastic Tub
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Penned primarily as a respone to Yon Milhaus' Life Alphabetically, Ahmed Capra's Life Numerically (1968) uses a similar format but lacks the numerological significance of it's forebear. The increased revolutionary tone is characteristic of Capra's work from that era.
Life Numerically
We Demand:
- Give me over to the opened head---again.
- Give me the heartfelt cake---again.
- Give the runaway speedwagon, dragons of ice.
- Give me the oberant pillow, in the chamber of Dorothy.
- Give me the flat elbow, nasty and cursing with scars.
- Give me on to the sky's implied masturbations.
- Give me over to the corks ungainly.
- Give me up on the scarf of dawn.
- Give me the shoes on your feet.
- Give me the hoary-faced gent.
- Give me the bulbous retreat.
- Give me the indigo nightly thrashing.
- Give me over to the kneecap's outburst.
- Give me the jumpsuit of desire, all threaded up.
- Give me the uppity wimmin folk.
- Give me the gregarious popneckers.
- Give me the egret in soup.
- Give me the pinions on wharves, battledecks.
- Give me the Priam with the hair of a babe.
- Give me the kidney tone's lament.
- Give me the usury of time.
- Give me over to the pulpit's acrid hue.
- Give me on the high-falutin' tunnel.
- Give me the floating glee.
- Give me the fat You and I.
- Give me the pants ill-fitting.
- Give me the reticent pancake.
