Generation Uncertain
i can try to see what
gives you life, Art
but i know that i don’t understand
the unsaid
the most powerful thing in the world
the hurt of hint,
takes a little
buried in a sequence
riddled with familiar
disturbed and plenty
beneath knowing
given with polite instruction
loud entertainment
repetitive gestures
ritual
thought chain
curls. beyond thin palates
inside the braincase
Somehow
it is important to me
that you are who you say
you are not software
and hardware
ghost and machine
a lovely haunted mansion
surely not
the Chain of Being
being the best recourse to reality
the idea that you
are a medium
transcendental
gives me away
I have been too literal
tried to say the ineffable
in good clean terms.
as if I knew you, Art.
beneath uncertainty,
where I expect no one to look
i seek when i live inside a dream
and then awake
knowing I have been somewhere
that words and powerpoints
defile. a starkness that cannot be let out
by leeches, psychotherapy or other exercises
of the mouth, hand, brush, microphone, laser surgery, rifles
there is bombing
the noble excess of murder
letting blood as though it would lead us
to the soul. something that cannot be said
but which can through technique
be shown its absolute opposite
there, you see.
there is where you have come.
there you have gone and died.
there you have set fire to the house
there you see a first
a good place to start
what is it, this obsession,
origins you can’t see
but seek with great sacrifice
the invisible past
i imagine exists
but which i can just as well forget
3 Comments
globatron
May 11, 2010a new beginning. a pathway from the past and the future to behold. a conversation with art is a conversation with one’s soul. beautiful and hard to look at. a monster and a kitten.
I hope you run from that burning house and build a castle. I hope you invite me to the open house and we can tell stories of what our lives have given us and taken away.
Akbar Lightning
May 12, 2010WOW! i finally had the kind of quiet solitude required for this work…it is old school rich…well done, bravo! i don’t want to besmirch it by argumentation or attaching myself to any of the opinions, as they are the surface of the oceanic thrust of this piece.
Logocentric
May 12, 2010as always, thanks for your kind feedback.