In the printed context of 0 TO 9, the multiple identities of Three Street Works (as a document but also as a poem) are not so out of the ordinary. It reproduces some of the same flexibility attributed to the medium of poetry by Acconci and Mayer themselves. Although 0 TO 9 also published within its pages numerous works in language that its editors may or may not have considered poetry, Three Street Works actually resembled the most conventionally poetic of its contents. The capitalized title next to Burton's name indicates the page's status as such, as this is how other poems were presented in the meticulously designed magazine. Burton's other addition is the adverb (sic), added in hand-drawn brackets after "Rose." The correct spelling in this case would be Rrose, with two “r”s, the same way Marcel Duchamp spelled it when, like Burton, he dressed as a woman. The second "r" creates a play on words, making the character's name "Eros" instead of "Rose". But Burton (sic) doesn't tell us this, only that “Rose” is, for one reason or another, wrong. Instead, he metaphorizes the inco...
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