STRIPE CITY

STRIPE CITY

LG WILLIAMS

STRIPE CITY

LG WILLIAMS
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BOOKS Art History Lecture Notes Drawing Upon Art Straw, Fluff and Eat Pebbles Y2K and Modern Art Click Here To Enter: Catalogue Raisson Gorgeous Nonsense Complete Artwork Notes: 1985-2000 LG Williams: Biography 1983-2000 Random Notes: 1993-2000 Small Notebooks: 1-3 Small Notebooks: 4-6 EXHIBITION CATALOGUES Recent Paintings Clean Shorts and Recent Wood Selected Installations: 1997-98 Another Tight Spot Figuerlich Art Und Konzeptkunst Miracle Gallery ARTIST BOOKS Year in Rearview 100 Dow Stars LA CART Planes Star Fuck POETRY Kingdom of Back Stripe City B sides Buddaheads and Ambercrombie The City of Angels Has a Halo of Smog Killer Beings 1997 1997 1998 1999 2000 2000 2001 2001 2001 2001 2001 1997 1997 1998 1999 1999 2000 1998 1998 1999 1999 2000 2000 2001 1999 1999 2000 2000 2000 2001

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First Edition. 8/9/98 Published in the United States of America in 1998 by PCP Press, Berkeley, California. 1998 LG WILLIAMS and The Estate of LG WILLIAMS. All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission from LG Williams, The Estate of LG Williams or PCP Press.

STRIPE CITY

Pain: not just another four-letter word.

Shark! ( on the bed )

So many happy insects flying into your speeding bold headlights.

You work ( undetectably) so hard at play.

You make clear why the discipline was blasted from the canon.

Those tiny bumps on your freeway are roadkill.

You know the dream of every inseam.

You don't see it? How could you? You're it.

You'd send Matisse back to the drawing board.

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Bloody battles and savage wars, so you can tremble.

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How good can it be without wood?

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Generations live in your 22 years.

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You're...

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The things you do so well, are normally reserved for hell.

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You know you're with a pro, when you quickly go to I don't know.

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23 years to get 72 hours of yours.

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Rest, next, complex.

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(At the intersection, near the end of Telegraph Ave.) I stopped, turned my head, ( blink ) you.

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( So many) ghosts on your windshield.

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Meeting at the Y.

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memories in retrospect: seiromem.