Variations on Various Influences / Ad Asparagus per Nauseam

Bean Newton

Issue 23 * Fall 2008

The title says it all in this piece from Newton's "Stewed" Period, a time from 1990 to '92 comprising some of his most experimental works. Note the influence of mid-'70s L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry and the uncontrolled babble commonly associated with hallucinogenic muskrooms. This latter was no doubt derived from Newton's collection of reel-to-reel tapes, one of which is titled Let's Rap About Experimental Psychology of the 1940s and 1950s, from the famed Let's Rap series of "hip" instructional tapes Foursquare Educational Company produced in order to appeal to "Today's Teen." Typical warpage ensues. Special thanks to the archives of the Quayle Memorial Librarie at EastWestern University. -- E.W. Wilder

 

Ad Asparagus per Nauseam

1. The answer is inside out. Like pajama bottoms it must be
appreciated for what it was before
2. the cows came home. Cows, daily catter anyway, do leary
come home. They frequently have to be herded there.
3. Expressions, like milk, can sometimes be drunk real.
4. Consider the following exceptions: parking, sick, moss growing
5. on your fore farthers. Simultaneous transmissions from the Dog Star
to Hollyweird, repeated daily, shows at
6. and ten. Sister Boom-Bah and her 26 nipples entro-
tain the Trainwreck Super-ride. You've seen them, deep-lined
7. and skinny-legged, one plum head and apple belly, true pop-
sicle sticks and glued-on nasty-nail. They drive no pleasure, you'd be slurp-
8. prized, from raking naked bodies. But a nice distraction still from whiskey
boss and sour bass and bosswife. "Nice."
9. Use advisedly: the lawyers say anything
more would be admiring geld. [Iodine and host-spittle goons and
10. weeks in tensive care, a code all for a need to sleep and
be cuntfordable.]
11. The be-ing breaks down into Sartriness