in response to the ongoing anti-extradition bill protestsa day like this, or the train between us won’t stop - this life is too long, dear tourist - & you know this morning I have to pay the rent too – as you insist that demonstrations at Victoria Park crowan ashfall of a feathered controversy - scarred by heavy clouds – as poetry as a lesson in leaving seems like years – & everyday umbrella seems like months of our days, days of our monthsalways like thissure it’s like thisyou know there might be another Worldwide Plaza - buzzing non compos mentis from your postcolonial Central - & that i’ll never know what new noise gently crumbles our married Clock Tower lungs – our karmic hearts in Kowloononce upon a ferry seaalways like thiswe used to seechaos intensify in the streets – waltz of smoke rioting upon youth – alla tumult of fire eating fire – time’s commissioned by risk as rains of pleasin fals
Under a tree shade, I satobserving the lines leafedlimning the page, their greenfix crashing into the shoe-dappled patchof sun and earth. Until a leaf—suddenly—falls to the votive callof six o’ clock, no morefootballing and frisbeeingin sight; it’s unaccidentally“Le Manteau de Pascal,” butaccidentally Jorie Graham.
Shoppers, take this time to please your companions. Right, left, right—obviously they take your attention via clockwork sales talk. A drop of discoloration is being processed when you talk to them—lover, robber, gender, industrially colorblind—magical are their actions to repeat the blooms of magnolia on marginalia, high-price of intentionsunder duress. If all good shoppers are careful enoughto be attracted to the sheen of the lights, or to somethingstrange like Mambrino’s Golden Helmet, I would liketo think that life in a crowded place is clueless about the appeal of mass nouns to the art of small things like undeclared birthdays and acupuncture points. Inside the fitting room, there’s a hunk of love, all spruced-up with a groovysense of purpose; this I’m referring to all typesof clothing as professionals, feeling the way we feel right now, are available on site to serve you,always. But what is fake measurement if everything at this moment
What glimmers in the treeseyes so sweaty as minutesbefore midnight howlsthe transona burst of twelvethe myth lives with usthe myth is shakenthe myth called mito—so strong the village folksfrom out the coldscream, sputtered outas the sigbin5 claimsits wild phantasm of humangyrating metaphors, of signsrobust with backwardrhymes splitting farinto the distancewhere a text is sighted(that refried ectoplasmcalled by Filipinosa kamalig) read blurrily: catastrophe sigbin—nomonstre sacre crampedby molecular science.
Things forgotten suddenly met me when Iwas asked that time the question my memorycouldn’t wield a cut grass, a mercury dimeI only held on for was dear life in general—something more present than schoolchildren& the charts they count are no moreno less my simple kind: silence felled& human signs felt & this feeling screamedwhen I wanted to speak about the worldwe live in & how those prescriptive mathswould have kissed happiness in passing,though my views may be wrong, they mayeven be non-academic since the essence of it allis to patiently wait & watch the lilies grow& remember how to laugh once againon the side of the bridge drinking the everydayfrom an empty Coke can & while curfew callscould be so alliterative, I guess repetition& all sources of knowledge could potentiallyturn us white, as though July birds scatteringinto the r
When I greet the daypeacefully, you stabthe day with a knife—a knife that stays,looks like you,a pith in the coreof tireless beginnings.Remembering…I bleed for youred alphabets of time.I bleed, like an ancienttear in the eyeof the strangest wall,the impregnable fogin our midst.
Through the hedges darkly buffeted by the feral state of gravity,of the unspeakable, its melancholy birds preening under the suncaught in the breath of a revelation: summer lying, you.We cannot suspect the horses running to be like the pastharnessed still to what’s not fading away; crisp hellos are a theoryof disembodied music, gospel at times, your blues most of the time.Let me hold the perfect hand, white, blinding, lifted highto make me touch the melody in a forest once you saidwas giving you death, the time my eyes were full of skies.Seasons arrive in no known glimpses of flowers, of fallingleaves, of snow splintering into muted signs. A living clock tells.The river runs past you and me, flowing into forked destinies.Now the mocking presence of the forgotten: how could younot know that part of your existence was built on large ruins?Oracular was I to echo your bone to your bones: Xanadu.In the context o
Escapism Run, run like the light that never goes out, the bulliedcharm of the matador pain-projector, also called the cousinof the law in uniform, flashing suspicion on the escapees, escapistsbreaking from and within the corners rattled by barbs,shackles, ex-lives, cuffs, left-handed lies.Whiskers there, paw signals everywheresharp eye contactthe language verifiedby the generoussources from the crime scene. The yearof the cat feedson artificial intelligence,the cat clashes with the K9 chiefs, sothe year of the Old Possum dispatchesno racial star, no un-Cheshire unit, no whatsoever in forensic translation.EqualityOperation optimism is highly tranquil. Moreinformant tips drop hystericallylike a Feng Shui forecast about life under surveillance. Scream, scream for the subjectthat meows compassion, allegedly sellingluck in the B-side,that is about 30 gramsweighedtradedbut never used.As ‘used’ is a word like curious Gus