mexico)__________could not
have guessed: wood, a
bowl of gray wood, of
an afternoon, already
shadowed (4
pm: very fast, high, sharp
rockets, a crazy trumpet
of a band, few
people, sloppy
cowboys picadors matadors bulls
_____________but out there, on that
dirt, in front, directly
_____________before your eyes, more, yr
existence:
death, the
possibility of same, the certitude
right there in front of yr
eyes, god damn yr
eyes
this bull and this man (these men) can
kill
one another
What one knows
put out, & quietly out, put out right exactly I mean OUT
in front of all eyes, including
_______the bull's, who runs out so
_________lightly, with such
___________declarations of
_____________his presence
_______the man, so
_________careful, such
___________preparations (the bull only
about to find out), the man
_____________so clothed, such tools, and
_____________running back to
_____________________________so ludicrously
the
_______barricade, the bull, too, smelling
_______the wood, where an opening is, how
_______to get out of
_____________________________Whoever
conceived this action, this
thing, this
instant declaration of that which you know is all
that constitutes both what you are and what is going on at all time
as of you or anyone since and as long as whatever
it is that it is, is
____this
____bullfight:
the bull so much not
animal (as the word
is) his
experience so very clear, there, his
bewilderment, tries, angers (no
fear, mere increasing sense from confrontation that
he is
involved
the men (the man) so much more
animal, so
aware, their
courage (fear) so
very clear, so very much the reason why
we too are
involved, why
we, here,
________((the man, down in that dirt,
so much
__________a scampering, so much (advancing)
a
__________sort of picked bantam))
those horns
that voice repeating "to-ro" "to-ro" "to-ro"
those words, wooing
that head, the plain danger of
you
have been
asked