tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5661785973848016562024-03-13T02:31:29.790+00:00walkingintheceilingSimon Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09309155964441551619noreply@blogger.comBlogger455125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-566178597384801656.post-33218329630178700592013-11-09T02:52:00.000+00:002013-11-09T17:08:03.244+00:00Enlightenment<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria;"><br /></span>Simon Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09309155964441551619noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-566178597384801656.post-90157661703739845472013-11-08T01:23:00.002+00:002013-11-08T01:26:13.296+00:00after Trakl (loosely) <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<!--EndFragment-->Simon Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09309155964441551619noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-566178597384801656.post-9595087126554883442013-10-24T14:44:00.001+01:002013-10-24T14:44:53.423+01:00Phenomenology 2
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<span lang="EN-US">the strangest things were happening</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">perhaps he was your lover.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">it took the authorities days to cut the bodies down. the strolling players continued unperturbed, </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">in town to perforn the usual mix of tragedy &
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">It was such a stupid building</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">& the interesting things you said about Turner </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">& the day I found you as a C19 photograph in a shop in <em><span style="font-style: normal;">Reykjavík<o:p></o:p></span></em></span></div>
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even a vague understanding of the prognosis. Beneath your feet a secret railway
runs, carrying messages from the 19<sup>th</sup> to the 22<sup>nd</sup>
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hopscotch, simultaneously playing at being a child in a skimpy dress, playing
hopscotch. A morbid fear of the pragmatics of an alphabet “outside itself”; the
patient’s wounds appear to have been self-inflicted, though the patient also appears
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<span lang="EN-US">Recording of a hurdy-gurdy, approximately
1920. Young trees, further developed than saplings, dominate the photograph,
unnaturally bright they form a backdrop that erases any pictorial foreground.
An old man, perhaps the hurdy-gurdy player of the approximately 1920 recording,
reclines against the most vigorously developed of the trees. A beautiful young
woman, perhaps his granddaughter, laughingly eats berries from a straw basket.
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self-inflicted. The self that has inflicted them is long gone. You sit on your
bed & stare along a staircase at an open door, at a room with an unshaded
light bulb burning. Along the corridor you sit on your bed & stare at
yourself in your room, the door open, an unshaded light bulb ablaze. You crawl,
naked, into the street, imitating the sound of a hurdy-gurdy’s pre-echo circa
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<i>The image is of </i> <i>Kiki de Montparnasse - Surrealist writer, 1920′s artist’s model, dancer, & beauty. </i></div>
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And, little town, thy streets for evermore <br />
Will silent be; and not a soul to tell <br />
Why thou art desolate, can e'er return. Therefore</div>
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They drove all night & are driving still</div>
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you were wearing the latest slacks for ladies</div>
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some kids played one game of pinball</div>
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after</div>
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another until</div>
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we were no longer there. </div>
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