für poesie seinen widerlichen lebenszweck: seine autobiographie /
for poetry his disgusting purpose in life: his autobiography
(to borrow from ernst jandl)
lazily: a thought experiment - the front drive: more like a patio...
deweeding trimming the shrubs and most certainly armed with a hook working at the miniature canyons in between the brick-o-slabs...
chaos at first... before i actually managed to relieve myself of a self-conscious body and the prospect of the other making inquiry: which did happen at the beginning of the task...
an old man with a grandson passed me... inquiring with delight: you'd get this chore done with a iron bristle brush: what joy emanated from his face as if i had a promethean rather than a mediocre attempt at: boulder upon a hill...
in all honesty i was chaotic... i could have attempted at a systematic: ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓
i did get there in the end, but at first it was more like
i wish it was a thought experiment - but... before reaching a ****** of automation and a variation of pristine methodology concerning such a base posit of: use... no... not talent... if i were a bricklayer... hell! if i were a surgeon! not today: not this life...
but once the hedge trimmer was out and hanzel und gretyl was blasting in my earphones... well... a running theme as if borrowed from: texas chainsaw massacre: just the odd chore outside the house in full view of a public in transit turned into a would be horror flick... but not really: i tamed the self-conscious body with a borrowed mind and some sponges and some electric fishy-things of the oceans -
by god: so much easier to borrow snippets of life for life from these "mediocre" underachievers... i agree: one might appreciate focusing on a pillar or two from the yawning aeons of literature: but oh god: the crushing ambition to go against more than a status quo...
just a life where i can live with myself: that's enough... just a life where thinking can relapse into the old truth of narration for the limbs to move with... synchronise themselves with: i hardly think about literary ambition: once a hard-on now a burn-out... thinking of those days: a litre of whiskey a night...
now a strict diet of circa 500kcal of whiskey... and what is a litre in kcal? 2000 kcal... one can almost be envious for ******* models and champagne socialists...
anything to let me live with myself: perhaps a way to imitate some 20th century dictator and how they managed that incredulous feat... because in my little world of mediocre and only being above average with my 6ft2 posture... which is still pretty average... no lungs to be a olympic swimmer... no springboard ambitions for a basketball player...
at best: self-deprecating humour to sanitize me with a blameless insanity...
because i can tow long a funny tickle of a day when i reach a ******: cut down on the whiskey to only compensate cutting down with three cigarettes - and... some talking heads on the headphones... is it safe? is it copping out? burning with a fade... well: simmering then... the chemistry of metaphors when fame is in play... it's such a terrible rouse... unlike a fame of a plumber: practical fame... implying: by reputation by the intricacies of perfecting a trade... by recommendation: by excellence...
nothing's ever excellent about starting at poetry afresh... it's not like: don quixote was a lightbulb in that if don quixote was: not-expected - some would argue... the lightbulb was intrinsically seeking status of: awaited-ness...
one "thing" led to another... and that... the argument follows... if it wasn't Edison... then someone else would have conjured up a lightbulb... like that first and last eureka! i guess: no one went looking for don quixote... or leopold bloom... or mr. pickwick for that matter...
poetry and gems... of note of late? well... if it wasn't that i chored over finnegans wake: then... i would spare myself with something like fliegen eintag polyglott (oskar pastior)... which pretty much reminds me of having cross the european continent only a month prior... passing france, belgium, holland, germany and ending up somewhere that teases Ukraine... wow! english is spoken by the english! not everyone speaks english! it was obvious that the french speak french... less so concerning the belgians and the dutch... but that... germans are not bilingual?! imagine my shock...
well... it's not really a shock... it was a fake superstition of tourism: which i never really held... i just wanted to stand-on-pretend... notably in germany... i would think this lie and find myself awe-struck: not all germans speak english... like the 20th century never happened... i hardly think it was naive: it was an evil joke for the entertainment of one - notably when we were stopped at the Germany-Poland border by the guards... and asked in german and broken polish (but not english) whether we were smuggling guns or drugs... or foreign currency...
aghast... the german border guards thinking it was necessary to even search my wallet to see how much spare change i had... true story... it just so happens after enough time has passed and someone might ask: formally or informally... 'so, what have you been up to?' my atypical reply is always the same: 'nothing' / 'nothing much'...
perhaps i am writing a book... but i hardly think i am... i am riddling a concept of bed... i'm getting ready to lick a stamp with this worded doodle before i send a postcard from the life of the believably living to the filing cabinet of either the Land of Nod or Nox: wherever grand-grand-grand-grand-etc.- father Cain has become the reformed archetype of - returning to keeping buggies and other parrots... something: that sort of -esque.