taking note of the musical analogy can go too far although it seemed like a good idea at the time no hurry tonight to take evasive action (bored in his mansard the ephebe dreams of scent of magnolia) the high latticed window tarpaulin jacks a sonata repeating on the stereo suites accommodating the slow movement of the dance whether leipzig london gloucester or rapallo a sense of place will finding none sufficient marking time & inhabiting antic forms like treading water among astounding mountains but caught in undercurrents taking marginalia for the essential thing & finding it is so prevarication avoids the outright lie 54 |
legal fiction onslaught of ordinance shooting up the sky over the city by the river the eye is superfluous observing this still the water’s as pure as it looks whipping this language into shape is half the bother for the rest a clause to hide in (he whispered away before I could confront him with these presents this chaotic assemblage of dark shapes stacked what survives is random of words of artefacts & what survives into text books accounting for a history of the few of coherence here is heterogeneous not locality what it asserts not toxic history changes depending on where you’re standing & whether you won