Thursday 18 February 2010

Test 1/ Salvaged


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we kissed delicious on a brown iron rust boat
we kissed delicious on a brown iron rust boat
test two- test two- test two
Poor Rabbit Alice, I crackle in the cold
test one: Poor Rabbit Alice, I'm uncertain in the cold
[dubbed on 1/2 inch tape from original acetate before the fire, started by an arsonist in Chicago, a black separatist.]
test a- reprise: We kissed- delicious- on an iron rust-brown boat.
test d- lovers fleeing the capital under the archived sky/ the similarity of love and drowning.
'I took photographs in college but nothing particularly serious: old trees, dead machines, party wreckage, stray women, lakes where children had drowned and river banks where their raincoats were retrieved.'
intercepted phone call: 'I tell you, you leave pills on the table, they'll get snatched; you leave any substance anywhere and it will go. Weigh it, it'll come up light and then what? Forget it.
test two (attempt six): Can we finish this before we lose the light, please
test 9 (chem. 5) A skinny girl playing the fiddle in a 1956 Hungarian production of Romeo and Juliet. Photograph shows performance's conclusion in Juliet's mausoleum. Exegesis: Tableau alludes to the contemporary situation in Hungary, i.e. a state of not-death/ not-life, a stagnation and still-birth resolved in slaughter. Exegetical failure: Tableau identical to ending of production staged in the 1820s to mollify the King, a die-hard fan of tragedy. Consequent exegesis: Tableau suggests corrected history of Stalinist purges and echoes the alterations of art brought on Stalinist interference.
test 12/ test 12/ test 12: first pressing
I was used.
I was used
I was used to this happening
the familiar tickle and the weird ache
my stomach swirling with the gloomy green sea
fattening and thinning. We kissed, delicious, delicious,
on a brown iron rust boat.

O-, a most stunning oratorio, Kleinman; quite the most magickal Event of this- or Any other- Season.


Arthur Rackham's Alice. No copyright infringement intended.