As much as a person could die in one instant
A lifetime–
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If you are still alive when you read this,
under their lids, growing black.
I am a modest house, a house solely
Its brass plaque depicts an oxygen eyein which two pupils of hydrogen dance.Downstairs is where I lit fires whose insightswith approach-velocity froze me, thensinged off into flame. This always happened whenI came close to a truth. Months passed. Years. Nights.Shall I accommodate myself again,a humble aquarium of lordlythumbs, some fin de species? Of course each…
Who whispers here is forgotten.
adorns the stones,words ripening your mouthto a spoilationof silence.Who speaks herereads a text that downloadsthe screen of his fingernail,through which nothing’s visibleas glass is.For the memorialwe must kneelto pick each flowerfrom amongst its modifiers:but to do thatone needs a hand baredof all uses, of all trades:as ours is not.
‘My age, my beast!’ – Osip Mandelstam
The light drifts like dust over facesWe wear masks on our genitalsYou’ve heard of lighting cigarettes with banknotes we used to light ours with JewsHistory is made of bricks you can’t go through itAnd bricks are made of bones and blood andBones and blood are made of little tiny circles that nothing can go throughExcept…
The only response
to lie down before it and play dead
Bending over like this to get my hands empty
Of the Patent Office I find a kind of peaceHere in this warm-lit alley where no one comes.Even the rats too they know that nothing newIs going to get pitched out now–no formula,Not one blueprint will ever be found in theseBright bins whose futures are huge, pristine.Old alleymouth grabbags my attention at timesI see the…