YEARN MALLEY

By | 1 June 2022


NOTES ON MY PLAGIARISMS

Michael, Geoff, Luara, Melody, Freya, Walt Whitman, Thomas Hardy, Emily Dickinson, Sartre,
Bataille, Beckett, Jean Genet, Lacan, Rilke, Robbie Williams, Marx, Rhonda, Frank

THE END OF MY PUBLIC LIFE:
variant on ‘I took my Power in my Hand’ — Poem 540, Emily Dickinson

PARANOID PHANTASY:
variants on ‘hammer, fin pitcher, kitchen knife’/ ‘That’s a clean job of it!’ / ‘I really think that in another life I must have been my sister’s husband’’ from Motives of Paranoiac Crime, Jacques Lacan

I’M LOVING ANGELS:
first written for ‘Modern Woman,’ a collaborative project for NGV Art Book Fair responding to Jean Genet’s The Maids, with Lucy Van, L. K. Holt and Bella Li

Material reworked: ‘pink enamel toilet seat’/ ‘the tip of her pink toe’/ ‘hunting in the bushes for a girl’s corpse,’/ ‘one fine day I’ll be found dead beneath the roses’ /‘your petals oozed down your lovely face’ /‘the monstrous soul of servantdom’ /‘she would like to smile, but she is dead’ — The Maids, Jean Genet

‘deserts are closed and do not communicate with the infinite’/ ‘bent backwards facing heaven’ — Our Lady of the Flowers, Jean Genet

ALL IS GOOD IN THE PIG:
variants on ‘dead mammon’ / ‘dead capital keeps the same pace’ — Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844

‘“Hope” is the thing with feathers’ — Poem 314, Emily Dickinson

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