More than a feuilleton

By | 31 October 2012

the experienced world
hasn’t been
the world itself
for a long time
now

& now we want
to see the world
as we want it to be

*

who’s speaking,
saying this
about the ‘world’?
what ‘world’?

*

a cute commodity
nestles
in my indifferent hand
as
I bend, or bow, really,
to sniff
a savoury crush
of peppermint and sage

a torn canvas awning flaps
in slow motion,
the herbicide’s
left dripping
on the fronds,
it’s picturesque, I suppose

*

can’t call the sentimental
‘sentimental’
when it’s very moving

the next step
is to explain it

the way you can
‘lose your self’
to a tear,
to a tremble even,
whenever that song
begins,
when that scent
wafts –
a prelude
to loss, to getting lost

*

seeking a way
back –
incapable
of turning to the classics
or history?

a minor chronicler
of moments?

hey, stop.

I googled
actaeon,

erechtheion
I’ve never seen.

I know the picture,
plus the concept
of the caryatids
(writing that line
way back –
‘carrying you out
like a caryatid’),
were they strong or subservient?

hard to tell
with a building
on your back

didn’t even

    thumb the index

of Larousse mythology!

*

a certain lassitude
in completing
the research
is not that funky

but

everythin’ I do
gonna be funky
from now on

*

maybe
leap
drop
slip and slide
like a penguin
on antarctic ice

*

over hoaxes

the trick
is
de-anonymisation,

get
‘better known’
is that what’s needed ?

doubt it

*

and the truth is scant

*

my week
is my weekend

my task –
reinvigorate ossified poetries
by adulteration

involve
the ‘always’ factor –

arguments
are always
a social event

boredom
is always
counter-revolutionary. always.
(Guy Debord
allows himself
a double ‘always’
& so he should)

who says ‘penned’
instead of
‘wrote’ or ‘written’?

always say
I data entered
that poem!

*

middle of the dark night
news –
suicide bombing
in Damascus
police teargas thousands
in Homs

messages from 2010lab.tv
in Dortmund
and galatea resurrects
in California

google galatea
or go back to bed?

no need,
you already know
that marble revenant

click on the link
or leave until morning?

sleep the computer
feel your way
in night shadows,
bump the bulky lounge chair,
bare feet
follow the rug edge,

the bedroom

the bed

*

the world
dreamed,
no better than
as is

*

who’s that
saying this
about the ‘world’?

*

hard to believe
now
but
every age will be lamented,
even this one

heard that
somewhere

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