27 August 2008


nocturne communique/nocturnal e-mission
i get mineshaft and horsemeat. but what i've got is mindmeat and horseshaft.

textual relations/e-ruptions

you are like a filter sifting. i am like a sponge sucking. staunch, stubborn, and earthbound, i stand at the harbor, but you are constantly at sea. will you at least throw me the paper streamer?


if a line is the shortest distance between two points, and a film the longest, then life is buried somewhere between. between confusion and impermanence. between truth and love. the poet deciphers as he traverses. his language is one of making sense, both as in demystifying a sacred language and as in rimbaud's derangement of all the senses. like the red helicopter circling, his is not an omnipresent but an elevated eye, bloodshot and oversexed. is it time to wake the sleeping beast?


a fatal vapor
the girls' tongue house number seventy-one she snaps a picture of the three male bathers sunning themselves on one towel, muttering, "that's some brokeback mountain shit." i know what she means by this, i even laugh at it. but at the same time i don't. each one of two in a compairison is a vertical stratum, and in drawing an analogy, we draw a line from one point on one stratum to another. however, those comparisons that are most moving, heavy, and apt, are those that draw multiple lines simultaneously and unexpectedly. they are not uninformed, base, mirror-based mimicry.

and you, you with yr clumsy boss hands, perceive time as a barbarian might, considering only actions and their succession, not understanding that synchronic and diachronic time are mutually exclusive, and that when you combine two histories the sum is not predictable. time precedes this, does not proceed from it.


yr eyes look long you're eyes and a long look it was yr eyes all along

a guy does
chinups off the scaffolding naked against smokestacks carribean music and bakeries and children's voices playing strangely ominous

i will not cry, but i will weave the red thread. first round my thumb, then round yr neck until it is a red towel tussling. i am away from you. the world beats a death march. you are leaving. why should i leave?

the paint spills and it makes a puddle on the sidewalk and it smells and it looks like milk and i walk through it and my foot prints, white and wide, are those of a ghost and those of an angel always, as they are, following you.


LOOK!
a bike ride
empire of the sun - walking on a dream
il girasole
ulrike meinhof - everybody talks about the weather . . . we don't
perishers - trouble sleeping
r.e.m. - pop song 89
smiths - pretty girls make graves
squeezebox! movie
treewala

LISTEN!

modern lovers - pablo picasso
namesake - when you were mine
no trend - teen love
hayes peebles
patti smith - parade
violens

25 August 2008


the last place to type
a sense of some
of ambiguity and anger

plenty of sheets and fabrics that will blow and bustle

and we are not counting on the door opening
for we are already outside in the black night
in the beaches
but still
the unnecessariness of “door”
is abolished by
the alternatively present slowfingers and anger
and thru black veils
long and horizontal
cased in the veils
what are they?

nothing but the fabrics
comprised by the darkhaired boy’s head
arranged in such a way
so as to create a wall
of veils
but for his eyes
they escape from a veil
to be made
i see him
he sees me
we recognize
that we recognize
each other and suddenly
the veil is no longer
a veil
but his individual hairs

and the understanding
of kisses
shall precede
the understanding
of what happens next

06 August 2008


nocturne communique/nocturnal e-mission
seven sutures for seven sins


textual relations/e-ruptions

i thought symbols possessed the power of transference. i was mistaken.

just because
a life
is
a life
doesn't mean it's yr life
doesn't mean it's the good life

another one here. another one there. only a matter of space? only a matter of matter? and how far does this extend? toes, fingertips, hair follicles? buoyant clouds, trampolines, and angels? the acrid smell of piss. the teenage novelist.

i'm the shadow on the wall behind you. i'm the brother if you want me to be. the brother in the monastery. the translucent head of a glass bird or a deep sea creature - both bathed in baptismal water, shallow and dirty.

it was fun
all in all
all in all
is all we are

i close my eyes and turn on my ears, pressed, as they are, to yr plaster-like skin, at once smooth and bumpy.

LOOK!
marian bantjes - love stories
ann demeulemeester
east village boys
futureheads - hounds of love
life and times of allen ginsberg
grizzly bear - two weeks
joseph heidecker
lykke li - breaking it up
lykke li and el perro del mar - take away show
m83 - kim and jessie
melpo mene - i adore you
stephin merritt - backstage with other music
morrissey - november spawned a monster
ian o'phelan
enrique pardo - dormir ailleurs
adventures of pete and pete - summer vacation
sagger boys
talk talk - i believe in you
10,000 maniacs with michael stipe - a campfire song
wltf

LISTEN!
joan baez - here's to you
bat for lashes - a forest
elodie lauten (ft arthur russell and bill raynor) - vision
mount eerie with julie doiron and fred squire - flaming home
native korean rock
parenthetical girls - joan of arc maid of orleans
alina simone
patti smith - the histories of the universe
michael stipe and natalie merchant - photograph