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sushininja (profile) wrote,
on 1-19-2003 at 10:57pm
Current mood: depressed
Music: Godspeed you black Emperor
It happens that the tv show is tired of being a tv show.
It happens that the tv show goes to the tailors' shops and the movies
navigating on a water of origin and ash.
The smell of barber shops makes the tv show sob out loud.
The tv show wants nothing but the repose either of stones or of wool.
The tv show wants to see no more establishments, no more gardens,
nor merchandise, nor glasses, nor elevators.
It happens that the tv show is tired of it's feet and it's nails
and it's hair and it's shadow.
It happens that the tv show is tired of being a tv show.
Just the same it would be delicious
to scare a notary with a cut lily
or knock a stone cold with one of an ear.
It would be beautiful
to go through the streets with a green knife
shouting until the tv show died of cold.
The tv show does not want to go on being a root in the dark,
hesitating, stretched out, shivering with dreams,
downwards, in the wet tripe of the earth,
soaking it up, and thinking, eating every day,
The tv show does not want to be the inhieritor of so many misfortunes.
The tv show does not want to continue as a root and as a tomb,
as a solitary tunnel, as a cellar full of corpses,
For this reason Monday burns like oil,
at the site of the tv show arriving with it's jail face,
and it howls in passing like a wounded wheel,
and it's footsteps toward nightfall are filled with hot blood.
And it shoves the tv show along to certain corners, to certain damp houses,
to hospitals where the bones come out of windows,
to certain cobbers' shops smelling of vinegar,
to streets horrendous as crevices.
There are birds the colour of sulphur, and horrible intestines,
hanging from the doors of the houses which the tv show hates,
there are forgotten sets of teeth in a coffee-pot,
there are mirrors
which should have wept with shame and horror,
there are umbrellas all over the place, and poisons, and navels.
The tv show strides with calm, with eyes, with shoes,
with fury, with forgetfulness.
The tv show passes, the tv show crosses offices and stores full of orthopedic appliances,
and courtyards hung with clothes on wires,
underpants, towels and shirts which weep
slow dirty tears.
-Pablo Neruda

Quote of the day:
"The skyline was beautiful on fire
All twisting metal stretching upwards
Everything washed in a thin orange haze
I said 'Kiss me you're beautiful,
These are truly the last days.'
You grabbed my hand and we fell into it,
Like a daydream or a fever."
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nomatter62

01-20-03 12:07am

Ahhh, nothing like a good mixture of culture and space ghost...

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