Terminology note: By analogy with Barthes's lexias, I'd like to call those segments of auditory experience into which our hearing of a poem divides "audias" (singular: audia). In this nintety-six second poem by Anselm Berrigan, I hear forty-two audias (title included). I supply the following transcript, generated using the "label track" function of Audacity, as a way of beginning to think more seriously about how sentence, line, and audia interact and inform the analysis of poetry soundfiles. [Back to Lipstick of Noise.]

Anselm Berrigan - "We're Not Going to Turn Me In"

1.225037 we're not going to turn me in

05.638961 apparation host
06.977662 turns on sight of a barbed sun
09.699265 warmth to gouge away with
11.846238 catch flesh upon and display

14.296313 western garden will cut a deal
16.828478 grow something and be rewarded with growth
19.707947 a city kid's green things
21.829662 plastic and metal veins pumping ideas out of every tagalong fantasy of changing names
27.784354 time zones
28.813638 or body types

30.493328 i'd like to be ocean shaped and crashing at my edges vicious and open
35.065117 become an outpost of irrational compassion instead
38.557105 on the interior run at all times
40.628303 while my surface adapts to these faces
43.286760 these photos of blood soaked children carrying each other between blasts

48.041673 sleep so well I dream of bills
50.586468 why so afraid of the bear in the closet?
53.295442 it will shake me out of my ideals

55.808663 the attractive drunk in our unfinished sentences
59.408000 doom is pretty sexy

61.125578 the track lighting in pictures of plants

63.619855 the ambience of an audience expecting what it will receive

67.421260 my heart does not beat too fast
69.561918 is replaceable

71.140575 the same theme slapped me into inaction

73.697998 but I run

74.828316 oh {owe}
75.699735 program
76.514321 state
77.013177 lift
77.638325 grasp
78.452912 love

79.261184 having lost all sense of tone
81.427100 and its enemy shame
83.296230 i worship no one
84.925403 idolize no one
86.327250 have no heroes and want none

88.575257 a magnetic pansy rocking the division in our sheathed
91.865177 collateral wreckage

93.349114 won't take my life
94.883568 won't take yours