for a pint of honey
pours out
a gallon of gall
for a dram of pleasure
weighs as
a pound of pain
for an inch of mirth
enters
an ell of moan
shakes its collar
as ivy doth an oak
for a man to look for happiness
as fetch it
for whatever laurel is not different
sports a puffed helmet
or what happened to animals in a Europe
philosophically dying what happened
to the animals of Europe
The animals of Europe went into a movie by Visconti and
became people.
You have to hate them and their beauty also, their
Maquillage and bias-cut
Thinking.
The wood is out. We’re burning bark.
Please send the animals back.
I will put them
In a bande dessinée
Read on the train
By a boy in a red sweater
Smelling of griffons.
they are living in their rotting châteaux like we lived in wood
cabins. Piranesi drew them living this way but some of them
don’t know Piranesi. They have no water and where do they
wash their dishes. Their animals are delirious with all the
suppressed philosophy of fascism. They roll over on their
wiry backs, on their short chains, they roll in their scraps,
they grovel with humour and they can open the kitchen door
when they smell meat. They simply hopped into the truck. The
animals of Europe no longer desire synthesis.
They, antithetical, die in the heat in their kennels on their
chains in
the draped salons of over-budget art films
Earnestly
And I plant them the fruit trees of the châteaux
Like anyone else
And I have simple stopped reading
One animals says to another animal it is not safe you must not
return I love you. Another says to her sister animal when you
go you will never return then she dies in a camp. Another is a
child and she stops living because of deceit. the animals in
their velvety dressing gowns have thought bubbles. They
break the incest taboo during a long cruel close-up and you
can’t help but watch. The father animal is not an animal he is
a person and he is confused about money. they keep trying
to return. They are only animals. They have titles and mean-
ings. They ride trains.
My premise is simple. All method is a
Demonstration of history. All change
Is substitution. ‘Yesterday was a
New day.’
Good citizens reproduce the traumas
Of memory and transgression, thus
Guaranteeing a futurity for
Rome’s citation. I myself walk towards
The fantasy of the Imperium.
I call to my sensitive friends in the
Streets: we’re complicity’s monuments
And the city is seriously quaint!
I believe that our complicity, like
Paternity’s absurd dream, regulates
the tacit repression of history’s
Absorptive convulsions. It is a gate
In the ancient style, a node where two
Spatial dispensations compete for
The iterability of an image
And its intent. We should pause at this gate
To research our emotive conventions
So that affect itself extroverts to
Articulate the commerce in margins.
Otherwise the romance between primitive
Outskirts and the Imperium stands
Preserved by the formal spectres
Of linguistic materiality
Fragmentation and doubt.
From an interior space we heard the word sequin repeating in
relation to leaves and the image was yellow-gold leaves
moving on dark water. We had undergone an influence of
death which was itself imprinted on such a moving sequin: the
breath sequins, the heartbeat sequins, the organs and their
slowing articulation sequins which drifting from the fore-
ground appear to dim since they gradually go out to illuminate
some event so distant we will never own the moment of its
perception. But all this gives the illusion of peacefulness which
is inert or at least passive when breaths burst smashing into
sobbed words some urgent errand trapped in these letters as
labour of light diminishing rhythm and fi we fiercely decide to
clear the stupid human stuff stop waiting for something to
come to the father-studded earth shouldn’t this impatience
release itself as a tongue so new weeping stops.
Nevertheless
I was content to assert that atoms
always collided. Now I wonder
what happens if, as part of an
atom collides, another part does
not? Though this logic goes
against the logic of the atom, the
question remains – must
all motion be unified? Might there
be a motion that is not
itself? – Desire? Resistance?
Change? in my perception all three
co-determine. In this way, I am not
Restricted.