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Monday 17 May 2010

Issue six// Francis Raven

The Developer's Art

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there is
an ILLUSTRATION of what a court house In
this climate should be
developing this valley and has done
more to build up
first
merchandise
store

-----a. Dates of sale July 1, 2 , or 3
------------------rate
--------------SET
--------------------------------Account Benevolent and Protective

I LARGEST AND BEST FURNISHED
I ALL OUTSIDE ROOMS
I MODERN IN ALL APPOINTMENTS
1 ELECTRIC LIGHTS
1 POPULAR PRICES

-----2.

which strengthens the nerves perfects
digestion and assimilation and
aids mental development by building
up the whole system

-----3.

if you’re confused between the outline
and the skyline remember that you are
only you on paper never in brick

-----4.

“Transportation is the process of carrying
the manufactured products from the
developed country to the frontier and
transporting the population between
as they sec fit.”

-----5.

shops of the company
lots upon which to build. They'll all have steady, good paying
anxious to
settle down near the factory
into the proposition yourself
(a murky/cloudy cold threat)
lots are selling very rapidly
we opened up a tract if you put it off you might
live where you live forever

-----6.

without a shadow of foundation
the accredited agent of the aforesaid capitalist
denied that his patron
harbored any intention of making
such an investment

-----7.

beenerected beenerected beenerected

-----8.

putting the thefinishing thefinishing theilnishing
finishingtouches on six 1x handsome eight eightroom
roomhouses

-----9.

purchased on the land of some months
NEWAPARTMENT HOUSE HOUSEPLANNED HOUSEPLANNED -----HOUSEPLANNED
PLANNEDFOR GEORGETOWN GEORGETOWN
and all the farmland
will fall
like britches
to your
knees

-----10.

during the present pre resent year will invest
several million mill dollars
for several hundred apartments
grinding civil servants
require housing stock
to dwell
reproduce
and all the answers
have porches
democratically front facing
trimming your grass is like voting in public

-----11.

Included in buildings new under underconstruction
constructionSleeping porches vac vacuum vacuum vacuum
uumcleaning arrangements arran ernents free freeelectric freeclecttic freeelecttRc electriclights shower baths pleasing pleasingarchitectural pleasingarchitectural pleasing architectural -----architecturaldesigns
of exterior and andInterior Interiorand location
with reference referenceto too views of the city
or parks are some someof ofthe things which
have been consid considered considered considered

-----12.

not artist not craftsman
not patron the developer’s vision
is as the producer’s whole product
raising money to see it rise
through the final edits

© Francis Raven 2010
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Francis Raven's books include the volumes of poetry Provisions (Interbirth, 2009), Shifting the Question More Complicated (Otoliths, 2007) and Taste: Gastronomic Poems (Blazevox, 2005) as well as the novel Inverted Curvatures (Spuyten Duyvil, 2005). His poems have been published in Bath House, Mudlark and Caffeine Destiny, among others. His critical work can be found in The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism and The Electronic Book Review, and his website here.