Performance Texts;
Armory Plays, New York, NY,
1990, $4.95.

A Reading Sample (Collected in Eros in Sanskrit)

Beware: You Are Or Be Where You’re Not

Be there or beware, trouble descends anyway. Beware of signs from on high & of wanderers in a desert without enough food to eat. Be where of manna falling from the sky & money & credit & theories of mercantilism that inherit the wind. Beware the manifested god who disdains all other gods before him. Be where you’re at, Jack, to better beware I-Am-Who-Am’s syntax. Be where bushes burn & end time begins. Be where the mind’s eye deifies-reifies-better-if-I-disembody-Sci-Fi when redemption’s a room in one’s head no one else can enter: sealed tight, bomb hatches open, captain. Beware the co-pilot in that cockpit. Be where the way, the truth & the light divides. Be where the love of penance meets crusading armies on every side. Beware the red-trimmed who preach to the indigenous how the meek shall meet the earth. Beware virgin births, the phrase mother church, the crucifix, the sign of the boss, horizontal against vertical, the Inquisition inevitably created by such a double cross. Beware scholars of sin original, definitive accounts of a carpenter’s son twisted infinitesimally into angel choirs wired to the head of a pin.