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it’s saturday night and it’s that time of the week when all the days disappear into diapers of new births squatting with umbilical chord necklaces, i open horace’s book, maxim something then close it: ‘too pedantic,’ i think then say it: pictoribus atque poetis quidlibet audendi semper fuit aequa potestas, which means i’m living in england when prog-rock was heaven sent - where did the englishman disappear to, the 1960’s?! then comes glasgow with bukowski (i found him there with ivan karamazov) and i like the fact that i’m drinking whiskey at 3am with the neighbour’s kids watching from across the patches of green while i: drum with my fingers against the collar bone, weep over singing in german, wear sunglasses to dim the night further. you know, many lucifers came with the crucifixion of words: ****** stalin, mao... jesus (the jews really took the golden calf seriously now, although it’s pinned up and it’s very diabolical to say the least - well d'uh...         torture for iconoclastic reaping of the knees to bend) - but few satans - who came with the motto: the silent waters nibble at the shoreline. my grandmother said that one, all credit to her, so about me and the lamentation of singing in german, a little bit of enlightened thinking: brehta - which in silesian polish means... he’s laughing... very close to schprehta - he’s talking in a foreign language - good for commerce. then i forget the strain and feverishness of lying in bed listening to the clock tick tick tick... i stand up and undress myself from the monkey suit worried about tigers and mammoths and fleas... i stand up, plug in to the ploughing of sounds, smoke a cigarette, have a drink... and play with the kids across two garden’s worth of length pretending to be the madman.
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Oct 10, 2015
Oct 10, 2015 at 10:16 PM UTC
silesian polish*
it’s saturday night and it’s that time of the week when all the days disappear into diapers of new births squatting with umbilical chord necklaces, i open horace’s book, maxim something then close it: ‘too pedantic,’ i think then say it: pictoribus atque poetis quidlibet audendi semper fuit aequa potestas, which means i’m living in england when prog-rock was heaven sent - where did the englishman disappear to, the 1960’s?! then comes glasgow with bukowski (i found him there with ivan karamazov) and i like the fact that i’m drinking whiskey at 3am with the neighbour’s kids watching from across the patches of green while i: drum with my fingers against the collar bone, weep over singing in german, wear sunglasses to dim the night further. you know, many lucifers came with the crucifixion of words: ****** stalin, mao... jesus (the jews really took the golden calf seriously now, although it’s pinned up and it’s very diabolical to say the least - well d'uh...         torture for iconoclastic reaping of the knees to bend) - but few satans - who came with the motto: the silent waters nibble at the shoreline. my grandmother said that one, all credit to her, so about me and the lamentation of singing in german, a little bit of enlightened thinking: brehta - which in silesian polish means... he’s laughing... very close to schprehta - he’s talking in a foreign language - good for commerce. then i forget the strain and feverishness of lying in bed listening to the clock tick tick tick... i stand up and undress myself from the monkey suit worried about tigers and mammoths and fleas... i stand up, plug in to the ploughing of sounds, smoke a cigarette, have a drink... and play with the kids across two garden’s worth of length pretending to be the madman.
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Oct 10, 2015
Oct 10, 2015 at 10:16 PM UTC
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