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+======== January 1996 ========================= Volume 4, Number 1 ========+
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| [ A JOURNAL OF THE POETIC ARTS ] |
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| Editor: Klaus J. Gerken |
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| Production Editor: Igal Koshevoy |
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| Associate Editors: Paul Lauda |
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| European Editor: Milan Georges Djordjevitch |
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| Contributing Editors: Martin Zurla |
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[ TABLE OF CONTENTS ]
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INTRODUCTION.....................................Klaus J. Gerken
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The Quality of Light in Mt. Oliver...............kathy jo kramer
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BLEMISHED........................................Allison Eir Jenks
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MINERALS.........................................Allison Eir Jenks
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STARHEART........................................Michael Collings
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THE HEAVEN THAT I SEEK...........................Michael Collings
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extinguish.......................................Igal Koshevoy
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SIX BY SIX.......................................Jay Marvin
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RELATIONSHIPS....................................Jay Marvin
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OCTOBER 28, 1967.................................Jay Marvin
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All-ways.........................................V.A. Blevins
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umm..............................................Jim Yagmin
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Whispers.........................................Jennifer Mulcahy
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Quests?..........................................Jennifer Mulcahy
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Desire...........................................Jennifer Mulcahy
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I ran through her hair today.....................David A. Cariddi
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Sir..............................................David A. Cariddi
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The Call of the Modern Bard......................Alvin Brinson
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Rachel...........................................Alvin Brinson
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Ode to Optimism..................................Alvin Brinson
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Stagnant Caverns cry.............................Gay Bost
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Empath's Reflection..............................Gay Bost
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Refusing.........................................Marc McDonnell
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from Relationships
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LIX...........................................Klaus J. Gerken
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LX............................................Klaus J. Gerken
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LXI...........................................Klaus J. Gerken
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CURRICULUM VITAE.................................Milan Georges Djordjevic
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POST SCRIPTUM
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Windows 95...................................Luis Palma Gomes
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[ INTRODUCTION ]
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DIVINITY
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As if Divinity had catched
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The itch in order to be scratch'd,
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Or like a mountebank did wound
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And stab himself with doubts profound
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Only to show with how small pain
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The sores of Faith are cured again,
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Although by woeful proof we find
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They always leave a scar behind.
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He knew the seat of Paradise,
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Could tell in what degree it lies
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And, as he was dispos'd, could prove it
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Below the moon or else above it:
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What Adam dreamt of when his bride
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Came from her closet to his side,
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Whether the devil tempted her
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By an High-Dutch interpreter,
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If either of them had a navel,
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Who first made music malleable
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Whether the serpent, at the fall
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Had cloven feet or none at all,
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All this without a gloss or comment
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He could unriddle in a moment
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In proper terms such as men smatter
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When they throw out and miss the matter.
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For his religion, it is fit
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To match his hearing and his wit,
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'Twas Presbyterian true blue
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For he was of that stubborn crew
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Of errant saints who all men grant
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To be the true church militant
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Such as to build their faith upon
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The holy text of pike and gun;
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Decide all controversy by
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Infallible artillery,
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And prove their doctrine orthodox
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By apostic blows and knocks;
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Call fire sword and desolation
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A godly-thorough reformation
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Which always must be carried on,
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And still is doing but never done,
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As if Religion were intended
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For nothing else but being mended.
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A sect whose chief devotion lies
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In odd preverse antipathies,
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In falling out with that and this
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And finding somewhat all amiss,
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More peevish, cross and splenetic
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Than dog distract or monkey sick
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That with more care keep holy-day
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The wrong, than others in the right way.
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Compound for sins they are inclin'd to,
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Still so preverse and opposite
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As if they worshipp'd God for spite.
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-- Samuel Butler, 'Hudibras'
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1612 - 1680
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Need anyone say more?
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-- KJ Gerken
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The Quality of Light in Mt. Oliver
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It begins where the pavement crumbles
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around abandoned trolley tracks ~
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Mt. Oliver, where even the bars burn down.
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The Goodwill is now a Rent-a-Center
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but the sidewalks are new.
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Brownsville Road is the main drag.
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It will end where it begins
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to be called South Park Road
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at an intersection where a Burger King
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is closed down. The owner lost his franchise
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gambling with his mistress.
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I thought I was every girl in America, a future
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model, 12 years old with lipstick on my teeth,
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and yet my smile never knew the difference
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between wanting and being,
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walking in painful shoes
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that made my legs look good,
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unashamed of wearing panty hose
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with hotpants, walking past the endless
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bars and churches and the cemeteries
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where I'd learn to say no
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that sounded like thank you
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to boys named Michael
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who would turn me on
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to my first beer, my first dope,
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my first regrets: acquired tastes
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are the source of all desperation.
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But just to be 16 again ~ listening to Bob Seger
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sing "Main Street" out of someone else's car,
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making love to Michael on a hill
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without knowing how steep it was
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till we caught our breath at the bottom,
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wishing the moon would just close its eyes,
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at least wink.
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And here I am age 33, walking down this same street
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and men annoy me with their horn blowing,
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as if I'd get in, as if the moon didn't
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stare holes in me, as if my heart wasn't a sieve.
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Disgust made me patient
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and patience keeps me here.
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But there's no shame in getting picked up
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if you're left off right.
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I love silk cemetery flowers, purple,
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folds full of snow. I continue walking,
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dressed like someone who thinks she's a movie star,
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as compared to how a real movie star would dress.
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The difference is supposed to be
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some kind of embarrassment
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but here hair reigns high
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and nails grow long and proud
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and we're not pretending
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that we're pretending.
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It's this difference
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that makes Mt. Oliver
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feel like home,
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feel like no and thank you.
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I see a grave digger taking a nap on a coffin
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whose corpse waits for the ground.
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There is a difference.
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-- kathy jo kramer
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BLEMISHED
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The octave of us is an avenue
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of blackbirds with marbolized wings
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As the blacksnake licks the bobcat
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in a herculean daze.
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Your impotent homeland spread
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the last deep-sea of freckles
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on your icey, olive face.
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Your blemished hands belong on you like
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Auburn liquer on pale blue tablecloths.
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I swim in the black of your eye until it
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liquifies ;like blues in autumn.
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We talk like friends of jewel and berry bandits
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Erasing halls of bored handwriting.
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-- Allison Eir Jenks
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MINERALS
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Rays from his barren eyes
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Collect the cranberry air,
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Rain'fall carries the temper
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of comets to the crib.
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Consoled by the concord of thymes,
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minerals and misty plums,
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His blood is baptized
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with the cocoa and
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toffee climate.
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Prancing through the
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crooked underground
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His roots condemn
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the pressure.
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Thoughts of solemn drifts
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Time in laps
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of waves and sun-down.
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His dramatic, purple soul
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lives in the sands
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of wooden music and butterfly leaves.
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Taken back
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Not there but all of this here
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Balances itself like landing tornadoes.
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-- Allison Eir Jenks
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STARHEART
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Shard blackness in flame
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Shred infinite silence with screams....
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Atom to atom wrenched
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Nuclei dissevered, expanded, exploded and
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Holocaust visits outer realms
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Gas clouds and dust swirls that imitate
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Galactic nebula until
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StarHeart bursts in sweeping gouts
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Of stellar blood
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Shed in expiation for its inner fires
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Its gravity beyond all weight and time
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[STARHEART -- computer-assisted
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Atom to atom wrenched
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Galactic nebulae until
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Gas clouds and dust swirls...imitate
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Holocaust visits outer realms
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Gravity beyond all weight and time.
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Nuclei dissevered, expanded, exploded and
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Of stellar blood
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Shard blackness in flame
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Shed in expiation for its inner fires
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Shred infinite silence with screams....
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StarHeart bursts in sweeping gouts]
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-- Michael Collings
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THE HEAVEN THAT I SEEK
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on earth lies hidden
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memory of sage and shadow and
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silence
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beneath crisp Idaho skies
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lies unbidden lonely
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laughter
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all that remains of
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years passed
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lies captured glimpse
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of cloud; whiff of grape;
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peculiar, angular heat of August
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sunset
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lies raptured glance
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of blue, deep-ice-pure blue
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above a dizzying arc
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of smiles
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-- Michael Collings
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extinguish
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hollow eyes watching an empty world;
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the stain spreads like the smile on god's ugly face.
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a million lights slowly join in his sickening song -
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a wall of tortured screams, a flood of amputated cries.
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glassy, pre-approved visions pass before the cogs,
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in planned spontaneity.
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the snuffed few, a blinded reminder to sanctity --
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building on the solid foundation of the crushed.
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a praise to envy;
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malice purring in a once-warm bed.
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a caressing hand, the other holds a bloodied knife -
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and the audience's role is to be fooled (again).
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the noose snaps tight,
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the crowd explodes at the sight of blood,
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and falls to its knees before it's corrugated idols;
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the ceremony repeats.
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stamped impressions,
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propagated lies -
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our love is for those who use us,
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beat us,
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tear us down and
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leave.
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prophets and filthy liars - we know on what they feed.
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give one more scapegoat, slay to deny the guilt.
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we love most those who rape us,
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and watch us tremble at their feet.
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everything is a commodity,
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shit, blood and cum.
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taken by force or sold, it's all a matter of pricing;
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of moving pawns in a pawn-shop.
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human mercy - an existence by other's pleasure;
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worship in trade for bread and circuses,
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pity for a fuck,
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crucifixion for encroachment.
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smash the light that shines above us -
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i don't want to watch this any more.
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-- igal koshevoy (tr)
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SIX BY SIX
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Fifty miles outside Barstow I walk into the desert
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the rain driving into the sand like micro meteors
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me my gun and shovel among cactus and rock
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forsaken by man getting the last laugh anyway freezing
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and sweating long after its tormentors and violators
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are gone I pick a place and start to dig six by six
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the rain pouring off my body I pick up the gun
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aim it to my head pulling back the hammer
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hoping it won't be long before someone comes
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along and finishes the job.
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-- Jay Marvin
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RELATIONSHIPS
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The idea was to beak bread eat in peace
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but you couldn't and wouldn't plugging in
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propaganda tape #23 an attempt to revise
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history never letting it go never seeing anyone
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else's pain and grief only your own
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and like always I pulled out my drill
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struck deep the bit finding it's way
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to your soul opening up skin and blood
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the moisture of your feelings exposed to
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fresh air once again and I felt bad because
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I had gone too deep and when I withdrew
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I tried to pour syrup on your open wound
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the dark sticky liquid burning your nerve ends
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that much more like raw flesh exposed to salt
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as long as we live we'll never get it straight
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between us isn't it time we quit trying?
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OCTOBER 28, 1967
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A hook shaped pipe a saucer like object attached at the end
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stuck in the middle a single bulb it shines down on
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a faded sign whispering gas and food at the foot of the
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highway behind the glass case candy bars and smokes
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look up with vacant eyes their many colors faded from
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the desert's hot sun and lack of consumer traffic
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ninety miles away steel and chrome compete with
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concrete and sad memories all of us gazing at the same
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sun waiting for the black comfort of night where we'll
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stare at the same moon an occasional semi breaking
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concentration in a symphony of fumes and noise
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I string the rope over a wooden two by four weather
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worn put up by hands long gone I stand on a milk crate
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ready to swim in liquid fire will the breast stroke work
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or should I try the crawl? I kick the box out and dangle
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until the first rays of the sun greet my swollen and blue
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body careful cutting me down my soul's resting near by
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like a an ugly wet animal free from its egg.
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-- Jay Marvin
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All-ways
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Killing, killing, killing!
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Everyone is killing
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They love to kill.
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On the computer they kill
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They kill, they stay at home
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They're naked, they're sitting
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||
|
In front of the computer
|
||
|
They're killing.
|
||
|
|
||
|
That's all they're doing
|
||
|
Is killing...
|
||
|
Killing, killing, killing,
|
||
|
Constantly killing
|
||
|
You go outside,
|
||
|
You see a bug,
|
||
|
And you kill it.
|
||
|
|
||
|
You kill--
|
||
|
And you want to kill
|
||
|
Somebody
|
||
|
I want to kill that
|
||
|
Person
|
||
|
And I want to kill
|
||
|
Somebody
|
||
|
And you're on the highway
|
||
|
And you're saying:
|
||
|
"I'm gonna take my car
|
||
|
and I'm gonna kill someone!"
|
||
|
Then you might say,
|
||
|
"I'm gonna drive my car
|
||
|
into that wall
|
||
|
and kill myself!"
|
||
|
|
||
|
What is killing
|
||
|
All the time,
|
||
|
What is all this killing?
|
||
|
|
||
|
Life is always!
|
||
|
Life is always...
|
||
|
Some people will
|
||
|
Look back at my life
|
||
|
In all-ways...
|
||
|
And
|
||
|
Always
|
||
|
See my life
|
||
|
All ways...
|
||
|
|
||
|
There's all ways
|
||
|
To do it
|
||
|
Live-- life--
|
||
|
The always life
|
||
|
The life you'll
|
||
|
Always live will
|
||
|
Always be your life
|
||
|
The life you live...
|
||
|
|
||
|
All-ways...
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
-- V.A. Blevins, Nov 18 1995
|
||
|
|
||
|
============================================================================
|
||
|
|
||
|
umm
|
||
|
~~~
|
||
|
|
||
|
So the cranberries sit on the table
|
||
|
Not berries, more like a gel
|
||
|
A gel retaining the curves of the tin.
|
||
|
So it rests in the center of the table,
|
||
|
Jiggling every now and then as a grandparent
|
||
|
or an Aunt decides to stretch over for the potatoes
|
||
|
Instead of asking. We kids at the small table
|
||
|
May not have a tin of cranberries, but at least
|
||
|
We know how to ask. They breathe through mouths
|
||
|
Decades old, filled and stuffed, crammed
|
||
|
with fats and sweets, exhaling now,
|
||
|
Inhaling, exhaling and now pausing to eat more.
|
||
|
The food wobbles down their throats and passes to their stomachs.
|
||
|
From under their chins, human fat hangs,
|
||
|
Dripping like tired candle wax, and stinking of rotted meat.
|
||
|
They try to hide it, packing it under tight blouses and trousers,
|
||
|
Defying truth with lines, curves, and popular designs-
|
||
|
When they go home, the belts come undone
|
||
|
The tight clothing is peeled away.
|
||
|
They sit in the center of their houses,
|
||
|
Tired, fat and content. Jiggling
|
||
|
With laughter at slapstick on the tube.
|
||
|
The fat bounces freely now,
|
||
|
But they retain the shape of their tins.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
-- Jim Yagmin
|
||
|
|
||
|
============================================================================
|
||
|
|
||
|
Whispers
|
||
|
~~~~~~~~
|
||
|
|
||
|
Invaded shadow
|
||
|
Smoke-woven lace
|
||
|
A silhouette
|
||
|
And whispered face
|
||
|
Stirrings, ancient
|
||
|
Silence- wild
|
||
|
Remembrance-
|
||
|
So faintly riled
|
||
|
Pleading hearts,
|
||
|
Myopic sight
|
||
|
Destiny...
|
||
|
Whispers the Night.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
-- Jennifer Mulcahy, Jun 1 1995
|
||
|
|
||
|
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
|
||
|
Quests?
|
||
|
~~~~~~
|
||
|
|
||
|
A quest of greater depth
|
||
|
Lies behind my outer eyes
|
||
|
While here, I'm forced to choose
|
||
|
From evils, ill advised..
|
||
|
Outer paths scream,
|
||
|
Inner doors invisible
|
||
|
A stoic blur to me -
|
||
|
A mind and soul divisible?
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
-- Jennifer Mulcahy, May 11 1995
|
||
|
|
||
|
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
|
||
|
Desire
|
||
|
~~~~~~
|
||
|
|
||
|
There's a Passion in Not Having
|
||
|
And to Lack has strange appeal
|
||
|
In a Yearning for Receiving
|
||
|
Never doubting what we feel-
|
||
|
A momentum in the Wanting
|
||
|
To Desire is to Be!
|
||
|
The Obsession for Possession
|
||
|
Is the Blessing, not the Yield.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
-- Jennifer Mulcahy, Jun 11 1995
|
||
|
|
||
|
============================================================================
|
||
|
|
||
|
I ran through her hair today.
|
||
|
It was like sweet vegetable-smelling perfume.
|
||
|
I told her she was awful.
|
||
|
"That," she said, "is exactly what my mother says."
|
||
|
We rolled down hills together
|
||
|
And kissed in the tall grass at the bottom.
|
||
|
We walked through wooded paths,
|
||
|
Where she fell into the water,
|
||
|
And made us turn back.
|
||
|
We froze in a tent together,
|
||
|
While my friends in the next tent
|
||
|
Wondered what those noises were.
|
||
|
And then we talked.
|
||
|
And now I am afraid.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
-- David A. Cariddi, May 31 1995
|
||
|
|
||
|
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
|
||
|
Sir
|
||
|
~~~
|
||
|
|
||
|
We don't want your decency, sir,
|
||
|
We've been doing fine without.
|
||
|
We don't want your values, sir,
|
||
|
You can keep them to yourself.
|
||
|
We don't want your truth, sir,
|
||
|
We've got nothing to fear.
|
||
|
We don't want your dignity, sir,
|
||
|
We've got our own right here.
|
||
|
We don't want your God, sir,
|
||
|
Keep him in your home.
|
||
|
We don't want YOU, sir,
|
||
|
Kindly leave us alone.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
-- David A. Cariddi, June 1 1995
|
||
|
|
||
|
============================================================================
|
||
|
|
||
|
The Call of the Modern Bard
|
||
|
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
|
||
|
|
||
|
I watch the sky,
|
||
|
the stars going by,
|
||
|
thoughts alite in my mind,
|
||
|
like so many stars,
|
||
|
a song I have to find.
|
||
|
|
||
|
A tune floats by
|
||
|
as a shooting star streaks
|
||
|
forming the foundings of my tale,
|
||
|
of magic, battles, and knights,
|
||
|
and grand starships under sail.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thus I dream the
|
||
|
stories of a modern bard,
|
||
|
known to but few;
|
||
|
for today who has time
|
||
|
to listen to a little rhyme?
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
-- Alvin Brinson
|
||
|
Dec 29 1993
|
||
|
revised Jun 9 1995
|
||
|
|
||
|
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
|
||
|
Rachel
|
||
|
~~~~~~
|
||
|
|
||
|
I saw her by the gate
|
||
|
as I walked into town.
|
||
|
I did not walk slower
|
||
|
than my normal rate,
|
||
|
for; she is a god.
|
||
|
How could I explain
|
||
|
to her if I block the lane?
|
||
|
|
||
|
It was not not lust
|
||
|
made me feel I must.
|
||
|
Her stride, grace, told
|
||
|
what I needed to know.
|
||
|
She was another of the stars,
|
||
|
child of the moon.
|
||
|
Like me - a creature unalike.
|
||
|
|
||
|
I talked to her one day,
|
||
|
she smiled my fear away.
|
||
|
"Why dost thou fear,
|
||
|
for thou art of the stars"
|
||
|
she said to me then,
|
||
|
and I knew from that moment,
|
||
|
She was my one.
|
||
|
|
||
|
But oh what temptors fates are,!
|
||
|
for I had met my true love,
|
||
|
my one love to care,
|
||
|
and never another would come,
|
||
|
no one would part us we declared.
|
||
|
Throwing caution to fates
|
||
|
our love was true.
|
||
|
|
||
|
She an elf and I an elf
|
||
|
we could not deny the call;
|
||
|
that call to confirm our love
|
||
|
beneath the stars above.
|
||
|
But our night came cloaked
|
||
|
a gray and moonless pall
|
||
|
where mists clung low.
|
||
|
|
||
|
I know now it was not meant,
|
||
|
for as we lie together on the
|
||
|
hill confirming our love,
|
||
|
to us came black-cloaked
|
||
|
death; pall-bearer for one
|
||
|
of us; I knew he would not wait;
|
||
|
Fate had played her hand.
|
||
|
|
||
|
I lie now wondering;
|
||
|
was it her he demanded,
|
||
|
or was it I who refused -
|
||
|
refused to take fate
|
||
|
in my hands
|
||
|
and change it all;
|
||
|
what was commanded.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
-- Alvin Brinson
|
||
|
Dec 29 1993
|
||
|
revised Jun 9 1995
|
||
|
|
||
|
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
|
||
|
Ode to Optimism
|
||
|
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
|
||
|
|
||
|
I don't know you
|
||
|
but that's okay
|
||
|
you don't know me.
|
||
|
but we'll meet someday.
|
||
|
|
||
|
You in your world
|
||
|
as lonely as I
|
||
|
here in my own.
|
||
|
under the same sky.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Memories yet to be
|
||
|
the days gone by
|
||
|
are yet to pass.
|
||
|
no more shall we cry.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Stronger love than this
|
||
|
neither of us knows
|
||
|
until we cross paths.
|
||
|
In your arms I'll doze.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
-- Alvin Brinson
|
||
|
|
||
|
============================================================================
|
||
|
|
||
|
Stagnant Caverns cry....
|
||
|
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
|
||
|
|
||
|
Nothing but an empty aching catacomb
|
||
|
Tomb where once was life
|
||
|
Vessel to nothing
|
||
|
Cup full of ....
|
||
|
. AIR!
|
||
|
|
||
|
No shriveled flesh to mark me passed
|
||
|
Nor brittle bones to crack
|
||
|
Nor dust to blow across the world on
|
||
|
|
||
|
. WIND!
|
||
|
|
||
|
No ragged silken cast offs
|
||
|
Nor hank of ancient hair
|
||
|
Nor teeth age yellowed
|
||
|
Nor memories in which to
|
||
|
|
||
|
. LIVE!
|
||
|
|
||
|
What IS this thing that mocks me
|
||
|
What disturbs my desolation
|
||
|
What scatters my tormented
|
||
|
|
||
|
. SPIRIT!
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
-- Gay Bost, Jun 20 1995
|
||
|
|
||
|
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
|
||
|
Empath's Reflection
|
||
|
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
|
||
|
|
||
|
We are one
|
||
|
In Time
|
||
|
We are one
|
||
|
In Love
|
||
|
We are one
|
||
|
In Pain
|
||
|
We are one
|
||
|
In Joy
|
||
|
We are one
|
||
|
At the center
|
||
|
We are one
|
||
|
In God/dess
|
||
|
We are one
|
||
|
Reflecting the infinite
|
||
|
|
||
|
(for Lisa)
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
-- Gay Bost, Jun 21 1995
|
||
|
|
||
|
============================================================================
|
||
|
|
||
|
Refusing
|
||
|
~~~~~~~~
|
||
|
|
||
|
Telling me it's so easy
|
||
|
Saying come on - Be a man
|
||
|
|
||
|
Telling me it's so easy
|
||
|
Thinking I'm playing a game
|
||
|
|
||
|
Telling me it's so easy
|
||
|
Thinking I'm not brave
|
||
|
|
||
|
Shows how little you know
|
||
|
Every day I refuse the grave
|
||
|
|
||
|
Every day that goes by and still
|
||
|
I can't tell which is harder
|
||
|
|
||
|
Looking at the bullet and putting it down
|
||
|
or wanting it to blow away my brain
|
||
|
|
||
|
This is no problem you say
|
||
|
Nothing I can't handle if I'm strong
|
||
|
|
||
|
Shows how little you know
|
||
|
Every day I refuse the grave
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
-- Marc McDonnell
|
||
|
|
||
|
============================================================================
|
||
|
|
||
|
LIX
|
||
|
|
||
|
One goes on ever hoping that in the end
|
||
|
It finishes correct. That all the fears will
|
||
|
Come to naught. That all the hoping will
|
||
|
Endeavor to correct the nights so often
|
||
|
|
||
|
Fraught with fevers, madness and desire.
|
||
|
It is with fire we collect the rope of each
|
||
|
demeanor. It is with flame we argue first
|
||
|
Against what we should know; and then against
|
||
|
|
||
|
What we have found as truth, hidden deep within
|
||
|
our understanding. Not a simple thing to just
|
||
|
let go. Like a graven image we confront
|
||
|
|
||
|
and find it is our own. Love is like this.
|
||
|
The quest for love is often fatal. A lover's leap,
|
||
|
a full clear view: ashen bones piled there below.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
-- Klaus J. Gerken, Sep 18 1995
|
||
|
'Relationships'
|
||
|
|
||
|
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
|
||
|
LX
|
||
|
|
||
|
There is little of an empire where dust collects.
|
||
|
And even less where brothers do not answer brothers.
|
||
|
The sword is like a twin blade and the grand portals
|
||
|
Of Janus always stand open to the arsenal. No one
|
||
|
|
||
|
Answers others in distress; it is only looting for oneself
|
||
|
That measures brawn for brawn and strength for strength.
|
||
|
Where power is the argument, and destruction falls
|
||
|
As answer to the common lot. Dust to dust the empire
|
||
|
clings.
|
||
|
|
||
|
The wounded do not touch the water lest the water
|
||
|
Be sweet poison. No one wants to die, but the argument
|
||
|
Persists: blind slavery or freedom's death. There
|
||
|
|
||
|
Is no compromise. And history persists to blow the
|
||
|
Footprints from the ground. The victor triumphs. And we
|
||
|
Who are so small content ourselves with nothing.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
-- Klaus J. Gerken, Sep 19 1995
|
||
|
'Relationships'
|
||
|
|
||
|
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
|
||
|
LXI
|
||
|
|
||
|
So it's come to this that I must flee from her
|
||
|
Who so captured my mind that I could never be the same.
|
||
|
I must depart from her in body and in mind. I must put
|
||
|
Distance between myself and this great longing in my heart.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Her life and mine are not the same. There is no hope
|
||
|
That even one clear night could bond a fond remembrance.
|
||
|
The autumn leaves have such full shadows that I crave
|
||
|
To be among them, lost -- how heavy is my atrophy.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Once I thought there could be something; but a spark
|
||
|
And nothing more. A flash of light that dissipated
|
||
|
As soon as it was there. It was obvious, and took
|
||
|
|
||
|
This poor fool so long to see. I do not blame her.
|
||
|
She has not been different from how she was before.
|
||
|
It was I who wished a future that could never be.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
-- Klaus J. Gerken, Sep 19 1995
|
||
|
'Relationships'
|
||
|
|
||
|
============================================================================
|
||
|
|
||
|
CURRICULUM VITAE
|
||
|
scenario ver. no1
|
||
|
___________________________________________________________1994.
|
||
|
|
||
|
*ETOILE - EXT. JOUR*
|
||
|
|
||
|
___Camera suivit des voitures qui tournent autour d'Arc de
|
||
|
Triomphe. Un homme (en off) recite un poeme. A la fin de poeme,
|
||
|
la musique commence, puis le generique.
|
||
|
|
||
|
VOIX (off)
|
||
|
|
||
|
Mon Amour me coupe les oreilles
|
||
|
T'es Serbe ! - Elle crie
|
||
|
Je suis Tito sur ta vase de Zen
|
||
|
En ecrivant le plaisir sur les murs
|
||
|
Sadiques
|
||
|
Je bois ton sang voluptueux
|
||
|
T'es Serbe ! - Elle rit
|
||
|
Je n'entends que la Tele
|
||
|
Malefique
|
||
|
Posee sur les epaules de camarade
|
||
|
Liberto de Belgrade
|
||
|
Assez
|
||
|
Assez des desirs cannibaliques
|
||
|
Ouvrez la porte de Paradis
|
||
|
Je veux baiser
|
||
|
Aimer ! - Elle dit
|
||
|
Je n'entends que le gazouillement
|
||
|
Du liquide rouge
|
||
|
Bien verse
|
||
|
Pollue par mes peurs mythiques
|
||
|
Balkaniques ! - Elle vomit
|
||
|
|
||
|
*ATELIER LAZAR - INT. NUIT*
|
||
|
|
||
|
___Un atelier de peintre. De nombreuses toiles sont entreposees
|
||
|
un peu partout contre les murs. Un peintre de cinquante ans,
|
||
|
Lazar Stefanovic, vetu d'un costume sombre. Il est derriere son
|
||
|
chevalet.
|
||
|
|
||
|
LAZAR (criant). Napoleon, j'adore Napoleon ! Il etait genial.
|
||
|
Pour moi, il est encore vivant. Si je peux dire : il est tres
|
||
|
vivant.
|
||
|
|
||
|
*PAVILLON KRISTOF - SALON - INT. JOUR*
|
||
|
|
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tasse a cafe. Un musicien de trente ans, Kristof Langlois, vetu
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d'un pull-over bleu. Il est devant son ordinateur.
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KRISTOF. Napoleon ! Bien sur que j'ai compose pour Lazar une
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symphonie moderne. (pause) A vrai dire, j'ai invente une
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nouvelle facon pour trouver le theme principal d'une
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composition. (pause) Donc, vous mettez mon casque sur votre tete
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et "midi in" commence a composer d'apres vos pulsions
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cerebrales. (pause) Original, non ?
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*ATELIER LILIANA - INT. JOUR*
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___Un atelier de couturier, bien arrange. Une couturiere de
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quarante ans, Liliana Markovic, vetu d'une robe rouge. Elle est
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tres fatiguee.
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LILIANA. (haussant les epaules) Napoleon ? C'est qui ce mec ?
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Ah, il travaille chez... Il est chez monsieur Paco Raban !
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(pause) Monsieur Lazar dit qu'il est un vrai genie. Moi, je ne
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sais pas. Je n'ai jamais vu les creations de ce mec. Chez nous,
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on travaille de jour a nuit. (off) Oui, oui, la collection
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Bonaparte, ca me dit quelque chose. (on) Ma nouvelle collection
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porte le nom de Belgrade, Belgrade aux Etats Unis !
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*LA ROSERAIE DE L'HAY-LES-ROSES - EXT. JOUR*
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___La camera se rapproche d'une petite fontaine.
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LAZAR. (off) Aujourd'hui, c'est la date de son apparition.
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C'etait le 5 Mai 1991 a midi. Ici, devant cette fontaine.
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(pause) Il etait un beau garcon. Ca, tout le monde sait, bien
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sur. (pause) Il disait...
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___La camera fixe le visage de Lazar.
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LAZAR. (on) Je voudrais faire la guerre de nouveau. T'es Lazar,
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tu portes le nom de Saint Lazar. Moi, je veux, aussi, jouer avec
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vos armes nouvelles... Une nouvelle guerre se prepare aux
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Balkans. La guerre, c'est pas la merde, pas la merde ! Oui, je
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sais que tu adores la force. Je connais bien ton ame.
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*PAVILLON KRISTOF - SALON - INT. JOUR*
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___La camera fixe le visage de Kristof.
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KRISTOF. Onze cordes cosmiques, c'est ma musique. Chaque personne
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porte dans son corps les onze cordes... Alors, le passe n'existe
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pas. Le rhytme de mon ou ton coeur degrade le temps, pas
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l'univers.
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*LA ROSERAIE DE L'HAY-LES-ROSES - EXT. JOUR*
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___On passe a un plan tres large de la roseraie.
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LAZAR. (off) La force, c'est tres sexuel.
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*APPARTEMENT BO - SALON - INT. JOUR*
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___Appartement luxueux. Une jeune femme energique, Bo Kaper, en
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tailleur, arrange les papiers.
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BO. (l'air tres responsable) La force, c'est trop sexuel. On
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peut mourir en faisant l'amour. Mourir ou vivre, chaque individu
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choisit sa philosophie. (pause) La mienne ? Comme l'avocat, je
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ne peux que plaider pour la vie, (en souriant) meme dans mon
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lit. (pause) Suis-je mauvaise ? Une femme n'est jamais mauvaise,
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son corps cree un autre corps, (en souriant) et une ame avec.
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(pause). Qui dirige ? Surtout pas Napoleon !
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*COURS DE WEEK-END - SALLE DE COURS - INT. JOUR*
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___Le professeur, un jeune homme, devant ses eleves, les enfants
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de 7 a 11 ans. Plan large. Le professeur marche vers la camera.
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Il parle serbe.
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LE PROF. (sous-titre) Alors, mes enfants, pour la semaine
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prochaine, preparez un sujet de Napoleon. Na-po-le-on !
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___On passe a un plan rapproche de professer.
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LE PROF. (face camera) Bien sur, Napoleon n'est pas un heros
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serbe, (en souriant) mais quand meme. Nous aimons les heros
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francais, son histoire et tout ca.
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*ATELIER LAZAR - INT. JOUR*
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___Derriere Lazar, un poster de general Mladic. Lazar assis sur
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une chaise.
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LAZAR. Moi, je raconte. Vous, comme vous voulez. Je ne suis pas
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fou ! Ma femme s'appelle Josephine, une tres belle Francaise;
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tres, tres, tres... La dame de "first class". My darling.
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(pause) Alors, Napoleon m'a choisi a cause de ma femme, je ne
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sais pas. Il disait...
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___Plan rapproche de poster.
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LAZAR. (off) Je veux doubler la personalite d'un general serbe.
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Je ne veux pas l'inspirer, non, je serai ce general !
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J'utiliserai son corps pendant les prochaines batailles. T'es
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mon temoin, mon chroniqueur.
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*GALERIE NADA - SALLE - INT. JOUR*
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___Une femme de trente cinq ans, Nada Cisie, en tailleur.
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NADA. Alors, un historien, ce machin serve a quoi ? Pour manger
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tous nos carottes. Napoleon aujourd'hui, le betisier de ce type
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me fatigue. (pause) Lazar, il est fou, plus fou qu'un vrai fou
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parce qu'il ose dire que Napoleon dirige avec ce machin la-bas.
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*BANC MONTMARTRE - EXT. JOUR*
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___Kristof tres perplexe.
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KRISTOF. Le futur n'existe pas. Quand je touche ce banc, il se
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degrade. On peut sentir la musique de cette degradation.
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Zaaaaap - timtamtamtim - zaaaap ! Le rhytme de notre univers.
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___Letitia, une jeune femme, vient et s'assis aupres de Kristof.
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LETITIA. J'ai achete un bon bouquin pour toi, mon cher.
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KRISTOF. Bouquin, quel bouquin ? Je n'ai rien demande.
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LETITIA. Comment devenir normal, en 40 lecons !
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KRISTOF. Ce n'est pas le sujet de...
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LETITIA. Ce n'est pas le sujet de mon fou. Onze cordes de je
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n'sais pas quoi ! Napoleon aux cieux ! La musique sans aucun
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sentiment...
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KRISTOF. E, ma belle, tu bouges bien.
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LETITIA. Je ne bouge pas, je vomis.
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*ATELIER LAZAR - INT. NUIT*
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___Lazar est derriere son chevalet.
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LAZAR. La guerre, cela fait du bien. Conquerir le monde, violer,
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voler, bruler. (pause) Mon art fervent predit la fin de ce monde
|
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pourri. Un dieu re-createur viendra... (l'air tres responsable)
|
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Je sais, Napoleon est son apotre. (pause) Imaginez la France,
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grande et jolie, comme le maitre absolu d'un monde tres nouveau,
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different, different, different.
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*APPARTEMENT BO - CUISINE - INT. JOUR*
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___Bo prepare un sandwich.
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BO. Il n'est jamais trop tard pour devenir heureuse, meme avec
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un homme. (pause) J'aime quand il m'attrape par derriere, quand
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il viole mes principes catholiques. (pause) Non, je ne crois
|
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pas, mais j'y tiens, (en souriant) quand meme. (pause) Mon
|
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dieu ? C'est la verite. L'argent, surtout pas l'argent !
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-- Milan Georges Djordjevic
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Windows 95
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~~~~~~~~~~
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Eram pequenas palavras,
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as grandes janelas
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Nem as procurei
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achei-as
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uma a uma
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por debaixo das pedras
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por detras das luas cheias
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Eram o meu pequeno segredo,
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as grandes janelas
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Eram apenas palavras,
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palavras a medo,
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as grandes janelas...
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. . .
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Windows 95
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~~~~~~~~~~
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They were small words,
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the big windows
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I didn't even look for
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just found them
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one by one
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below the stones
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behind the highmoons
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They were my little secret,
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the big windows
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They were just words,
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fear words,
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the big windows...
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-- Luis Palma Gomes
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THE WIZARD EXPLODED SONGBOOK (1969), songs by KJ Gerken
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FULL BLACK Q (1975), a poem by KJ Gerken
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ONE NEW FLASH OF LIGHT (1976), a play by KJ Gerken
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THE BLACKED-OUT MIRROR (1979) a poem by Klaus J. Gerken
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THE BREAKING OF DESIRE (1986), poems by KJ Gerken
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FURTHER SONGS (1986), songs by KJ Gerken
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POEMS OF DESTRUCTION (1988), poems by KJ Gerken
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DIAMOND DOGS (1992), poems by KJ Gerken
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KILLING FIELDS (1992), a poem by KJ Gerken
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THE AFFLICTED, a poem by KJ Gerken
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FRAGMENTS OF A BRIEF ENCOUNTER, poems by KJ Gerken
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LADIES (1983), a poem by Klaus J. Gerken
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BARDO (1994-1995), a poem by Klaus J. Gerken
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MZ-DMZ (1988), ramblings by Igal Koshevoy
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DARK SIDE (1991), ramblings by Igal Koshevoy
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STEEL REIGNS & STILL RAINS (1993), ramblings by Igal Koshevoy
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BLATANT VANITY (1993), ramblings by Igal Koshevoy
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ALIENATION OF AFFECTION (1993), ramblings by Igal Koshevoy
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LIVING LIFE AT FACE VALUE (1993), ramblings by Igal Koshevoy
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HATRED BLURRED (1993), ramblings by Igal Koshevoy
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CHOKING ON THE ASHES OF A RUNAWAY (1993), ramblings by I. Koshevoy
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BORROWED FEELINGS BUYING TIME (1993), ramblings by Igal Koshevoy
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HARD ACT TO SWALLOW (1994), ramblings by Igal Koshevoy
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HALL OF MIRRORS (1994), ramblings by Igal Koshevoy
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ARTIFICIAL BUOYANCY (1994), ramblings by Igal Koshevoy
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THE POETRY OF PEDRO SENA, poems by Pedro Sena
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THE FILM REVIEWS, by Pedro Sena
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THE SHORT STORIES, by Pedro Sena
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INCANTATIONS, by Pedro Sena
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POEMS (1970), poems by Franz Zorn
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All poems copyrighted by their respective authors. Any reproduction of
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YGDRASIL: A Journal of the Poetic Arts - Copyright (c) 1993, 1994, 1995,
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The official version of this magazine is posted on Tom Almy's "Bitter
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Butter Better BBS" (1-503-692-5841) and on Ygdrasil's world-wide web site
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(http://www.rdrop.com/~igal/ygdrasil/). No other version shall be deemed
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