Sudelbücher X
“Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.”—Lichtenberg
In dull, dank windows, hearts once drown
In the lines of an old notebook
the scientists formulae dampened then,
fell in | A perspiration’s night hollowed out, the halo light, silenced climatological tracks, luminous amid a disappearing | snowwhite precipitation pulp the city’s downing, in dull, dank windows, hearts fall away as cut hair, lunged and darkened by too many and too much incompleteness, upended. |
Xanthic dream in the body of Winter, night the sky falling in snaps of bubbled rhyme, | you an unfinished mess avoids the lunacy of our arrogant conclusions, xeriscape expectations and the dormitory of madness, |
where but our xenos manias over the phonias and phobias, your heart fictive in its falling away. |
Once we were xenial, our hearts now denying, once we were | some abscess settles inside, an absence in the forgetful morning, us titling. |
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ii | the lunacy of conclusions over the phonias and phobias. | He reaches to grasp the shadow of his spoon, but the shadow reappears on the back his mind’s hand, dream drowning. |
iii | once some x settles inside morning: | Xanthic dream in the body, the sky falling, snowwhite rain downing darkened by incompleteness, upended |
perspiration night, hollowed out. climatological tracks, luminous in your disappearing, an unfinished avoids | us | Once we were xenial, once we were some abscess, x settles inside the forgetful morning, |
us | morning: us | iv |
once some x settles inside | Xanthic dream falling snowwhite by too many and too much, upended perpendicular hollowed tracks, your disappearing, | a mess avoids the arrogant xeriscape, a dormitory of madness, our xenos manias, xenial our hearts now denying, |
V I have always believed in conspiracies | dream in the body downing the city darkened, upended and hollowed out our expectations over the ph and ph. | What was it we fell. into |
Once we were, once we | forgetful, us | the dream drowning |
vi | The dream drowning | dream downing the city darkened,
upended, hollowed out expectations over the once |
we settle forgetful, u |
| vii |
but the shadow reappears drowning dream | He reaches to grasp the shade, but the shadow reappears dream drowning | in dull, dank windows, hearts fall away, we fall away |
| viii | in dull, dank windows, hearts |
once | we dull in the dank windows
| tilting |
| ix | x |
in dull, dank windows, hearts | Once
| We fell away, once |
and the cats gift us dead mice in the morning
as the grand oak burns through the afternoon.
