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999 rooms, 34-66: rooms of experience

Room 34
In room 34, dogs are beheaded with cleavers and suspended over buckets to let the blood collect; the heads are thrown in a corner, where a rickety adolescent burns away the hair with a oxyhydrogen torch before piling them up.

Room 35
In wide and bushy room 35, a tiger wanders about.

Room 36
In room 36, your father breaks your nose with a punch.

Room 37
Room 37 is well-set and furnished and upholstered and on fire.

Room 38
Room 38 has no ceiling,
still night there is pitch-black and merciless;
the room is a pool or a pit,
more pit than a pool with its narrow shore
(half a meter of stone or reef)
and there, in the deep dark water, struggling
hard to keep afloat, swallowing gallons
and constantly sucked back in the
briny deep, bobbing like a piece of cork,
in no time surfacing again,
eyes focused on the diminutive shore,
a frenetic young head (sixteen
at the oldest) bearing deep and gory
wound, gashed open by the point of
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Oh Lovely TV Lulu, Show Me Thy Fully Busty TV Tutu, Thy Fully Fluffy TV Tush, Thy Slutty UK TV Eye

Milli Vanilli, Tears For Fears, Oasis,
The Feelies, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Fun Boy Three,
Yes, TV on the Radio, Small Faces,
They Might Be Giants, Ween, Tenacious D,

Pere Ubu, Yo La Tengo, Alabama,
Velvet Revolver, Toto, Bow Wow Wow,
Of Montreal, a-ha, Bananarama,
Vetiver, Mott the Hoople, Henry Cow,

Menomena, The Go! Team, Mr Mister,
The Doobie Brothers, Hoobastank, Sublime,
Wet Willie, Kajagoogoo, Twisted Sister,
Hole, Animal Collective, Nifelheim,

The Slits, The Strokes, The Fugs, The Fools, The Fall,
The Who, The Move, The The, The Eels, The Call.

[Sonnet 40 (“Take all my loves, my love, yea take them all”)]

For those who aren’t familiar with my Sonnagrams project, I take Shakespeare’s Sonnets, scramble the letters with an anagram generator, then rearrange the scrambled letters into an all-new sonnet in iambic pentameter with the English rhyme scheme.  Once I’ve managed to create the sonnet, all leftover letters are used to make a title. K. Silem Mohammad

Per quelli che non sanno niente del mio progetto Sonnagrams, prendo i Sonetti di Shakespeare, ne mischio le lettere con un generatore di anagrammi e, quindi, riordino le lettere mischiate in un sonetto nuovo di zecca in pentametri giambici secondo le schema di rime inglese. Una volta che sono riuscito a creare il sonetto, tutte le lettere avanzate vengono usate per fare il titolo. K. Silem Mohammad