Tuesday, August 17, 2021
Thursday, December 17, 2020
The Beethoven Variations (describing capital) * - by Nicholas Komodore
Threshold
becomes shelter sold, expounded
boundless
becomes ground-stress, scurried
easeful
becomes lease-tool, coughed
outline(r)
becomes about-mine(r), rumbled
goodnight
becomes should-might, contaminated
all-powerful
becomes troll-shower-fool, cramped
holiday
becomes holo-pay, recharged
workman
becomes clock-plan, bleated
far-flung
becomes subpar lung, undergone
brokenhearted
becomes tech-bro-can-harm-med, conveyed
unicorn
becomes commie-porn, varnished
delight
becomes deal-plight, nourished
pandemic panic
becomes dumb-epic static, danced
recollection
becomes reek-coal-action, wavered
landscape
becomes brand-cape, unheeded
bedside
becomes bled-tide, quenched
downcast
becomes pawn-trust, resolved
despair
becomes less-dare, rendered
fortune
becomes afford-tune, re-shingled
farewell
becomes pair-sell, inhibited
evermore
becomes clever-bore, permeated
bittersweet
becomes litter-feet, steeped
solitude
becomes soul-etude, spackled
raindrops
become pain-crops, pickled
sometimes
become gum-primes, halted
uniform
becomes funny-norm, bridled
logistics
becomes logic shticks, smeared
suicide
becomes sue-a-side (sewers-aid), filtered
footsteps
become loot-steppes, resonated
unwelcomed
becomes sun-well-cloned, meandered
futurists
become few-tourists, laminated
shamefaced
becomes fame-laced, defrocked
chariot
becomes cha-cha-riot, inculcated
beech-tree
becomes leech-fee, chattered
loathsome
becomes clothes-gone, scraped
forsaken
becomes lore-shaken, snarled
sweat-stained
becomes sect-stay-in, forbidden
infant
becomes seen-plant, kneeled
jet-black
becomes net-fuck, averted
wonder-struck
becomes yonder-frack, clutched
unmarked
becomes run-barked, hung
Kermit the frog
becomes Hermit the demagogue, furnished
coup d'etat
becomes cooed data, ratified
inconsolable
becomes sin-consumable, debated
know-nothing
becomes no-now-within, carbonated
priceless
becomes dice-guess, calibrated
comfort
becomes comb fort, coached
yesterday
becomes yes turd AI, tremulated
spellbound
becomes cell-hound, irrigated
lamplight
becomes dump-freight, infested
birthplace
becomes mirth-trace, traumatized
love-struck
becomes loaves suck, redacted
stimulus check
becomes steam-mule us(-ass) cheek, eaten
universal
becomes tyranny-special, fertilized
sacrifice
becomes cry-suffice, unwaged
housewives
become Faust-hives, glistened
village
becomes vile-sage, giggled
melancholy
becomes melli-holy, squandered
everlasting
becomes lever-rusting, whispered
fearsome
becomes King-Lear-scum, untraced
bottomless
becomes glut-mess, insinuated
discoveries
become frisk-ovaries, admonished
unblemished
becomes gun-phlegm-pissed, learnt
unimportant
becomes many-dormant, hovered
dwelling place
becomes wielding case, embarrassed
trouble-free
becomes humble-decree, gestured
western
becomes we-cistern, trundled
orphan
becomes shore-done, infused
sunshine
becomes shun-fine, screamed
eastern
becomes fist-stern, accumulated
signpost
becomes resign-ghost, expired
unisex
becomes felony-index, negotiated
exterminator
becomes ex-term-mean-at-or, adapted
countryside
becomes pantrycide, defanged
renowned
becomes bee-owned, exploded
whoever
becomes tohubohu-sever, knotted
laughingstock
becomes stuffing lock, seethed
corporeality
becomes tempo-fealty, reshuffled
hoodwinking
becomes food-sinking, diffused
sublime
becomes billyclub-rhyme, merged
surrounded
becomes sure-noun-dead, parsed
forlorn
becomes gore-torn, mandated
slapstick
becomes map-leak, problematized
applause
becomes app-laws, intimidated
downpour
becomes clown-tour, re-assessed
brimstone
becomes grim-phone, grained
animal cruelty
becomes anima realty, throbbed
hedgerows
become pledge-shows, degenerated
fulfillment
becomes null-feel-rent, certified
fact-base
becomes fucked-race, dawdled
Sophie’s choice
becomes law-fees-voice, downloaded
numerical
becomes nous-spherical, occluded
sobriety
becomes rob-royalty, procured
eyelash
becomes fly-flush, stirred
warrior ant caste
becomes worry or rant outcast, costed
graceful
becomes pace-cool, bawled
farm land
becomes Vietnam band, trodden
immaterial
becomes lemma-feral, rooted
university
becomes colony-city, harvested
coherence
becomes cow-hear-fence, befitted
clifftop
becomes if-pop, furrowed
afternoon
becomes laughter-goon, delved
nonetheless
becomes moan-the-mesh, straddled
plurality
becomes true-ally-key, paved
misfortune
becomes kiss-torture, chewed
window
becomes wind-owe, sunk
attainment
becomes refrain-dent, plunged
wasteland
becomes taste-demand, chiseled
horizon
becomes whore-buy-zone, flailed
bulldozer
becomes rule-hoser, reported
crematorium
becomes chroma-emporium, scribbled
contemporaries
become contempt or rare (ore err) ease, shrugged
information
becomes in-for-May68-soon, rankled
ecofriendly
becomes echo-endplay, wrinkled
tongue twister
becomes harangue war enlister, rustled
evidence
becomes wavy-lens, fermented
art-form
becomes lard-storm, installed
loose ends
become callus friends, embraced
academic
becomes A.C.A.B-demic, lobbied
hunchback
becomes punch-bank, lunged
butterfly
becomes gutter-sly, contravened
childhood
becomes beguiled-crude, phrased
snowflakes
become blown lakes, pricked
slaughterhouse
becomes daughter-per-ounce, shorn
shareholders
become fare-shoulders, dribbled
cause & effect
become Wizard of Oz (laws) & market (defect), prophesized
feedback
becomes freed park, dismantled
astronomer
becomes past-raw-newcomer, scrambled
household lest serf
becomes hustle-Fordist surf, hassled
air attack
becomes chair a talk, mused
courtship dress
becomes fort IP address, activated
peso factory
becomes ipso facto quarry, saddled
native language
becomes plaintiff bondage, infested
garbage
becomes suburb edge, localized
commodity
becomes demo-duty, swiped
Molotov cocktails
become mall-ought of coke tales, populated
general public
becomes funeral-phallic, voted
noesis
becomes no-seize bliss, uncorked
stagehand
becomes rage demand, privatized
lazy eye
becomes bougie nigh, worn
masochist
becomes mass-oak-kissed, exhausted
philosophy
becomes hylo-atrophy, scanned
slam dunks
become slum tanks, re-enacted
tragedy
becomes art in Getty, decommissioned
kingdom
becomes bring-bomb, reserved
buzzword
becomes jazz-landlord, downsized
bandwagon
becomes land agon, galvanized
today
becomes too-die, tenebrated
homegrown
becomes hone-drone, charged
immigrants
become hemi-rants, mutilated
masterpiece
becomes muss steer peace, archived
austere market basket
becomes us-tear ticket casket, denuded
muscle memory
becomes gas-oil-plenary, streamed
parking lot
becomes rap kit toll, pursed
sadist
becomes shade-dissed, acquiesced
audacity
becomes odd ash (awe-dash) city (shitty), germinated
hide and seek
become abide and sick, sanitized
decision
becomes ready-scission, microwaved
identities
become id-denty-tease, regulated
forest
becomes foe or rest, dehisced
mash potatoes
become cash-pot ate toes, skidded
worst comes to worst
becomes war-situ cams to horst, succored
superman
becomes soup per ma, evoked
vitriol
becomes vie-tree-all, impoverished
porcelains
become poor sell ends (Porsche-élans), testified
heaven and hell
become hey vain inhale, circulated
tomorrow
becomes tomb-marrow, draped
humor
becomes hue-more or, espoused
shooting star
becomes shoe tins tar, sustained
extreme sports
become ex trims ports, entwined
search and destroy
become see-urchin dished try, deprived
seduce
becomes said-douche, reformed
therefore
becomes the ref oar, moonshined
economy
becomes eek no me, colonized
dunkin donut
becomes done-kin dough not, desiccated
being and becoming
become be INC. end beak humming, looped.
*The Beethoven Variations are the 3rd movement from Nicholas Komodore's serial epic poem:
The donkey of eu(-) (eats the straw that breaks the camel's back)
TAXIMACHIA - allegro ma non troppo
