outside light (Page 53)

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for a kind of record, III

III.Is it time a sheeringa shelfthe worldborne upby whatIs it so muchIs it timeby the capillary actionof years of photographsof looksof looks lost on one anotherIs it so muchI had no ideadaylight would belike thisI had no idea of lovein the daylightYour eyes are bluevolcanic lakeswithout depthwithout heatsimply welling

celebrating Santiago Gamboa, as well as stating the obvious & wondering once again at the sentimental Left, melting even before it gets to the battlefield–were we fantasizing? grinning stupidly, terrifyingly

…the reasons someone who’s about to shoot another man thinks he has may vary, but the deed is the same, someone will press the trigger, and when the lead breaks the skin and drills into the cranium and damages a lobe and perforates it and opens a path in

on a kind of record, II

II.she saidI’m going to talk to you quite openlyand sheapologised for her vulgarityis there a way onwardJuanaby Gamboathe western cordilleroa patch of vomitmade up of the lightsof Bogotácupped in the handsof a thousand digitsfigures of bonewalk the westernhorizonstill recognisablemoving without acknowledgementyou are watchingrelations of yoursI askyou trap me

reminding you of … something … at the edge where true memory segues into false

and used to advertise on Titter a link to this. who is the artist who the model? perhaps it reminds me of James Palumbo’s (aka Lord Palumbo of Southwark, member of the UK House of Lords; aka Baron Palumbo, founder of Ministry of Sound and very very rich) novel Tomas.

Since remarkably little has changed in the intervening 17 years in respect of arts and cultural policy in NZ, I have forwarded the letter linked to below to our current Prime Minister & Minister for the Arts, Rt. Hon. Jacinda Ardern

https://www.outsidelight.online/company/dear-visitor/2010-2012/letter-to-the-prime-minister-of-new-zealand/

notes on to a kind of record I.

this in commonpoem is problemand this very importanta sort of programgathering of wordsconjunctivesas substantivesof typesof syntactical momentsof verbal tonalitiesthe alternate facehere widenedtowards the obscurescintillatingwith certainty of a phenomenonnot a thought butprocess of thoughtmirror-likerefractionof the humanendin itselfendof itselfendgermof an infinityof horrorsreserves in one’s thoughtshidden intentioncharlatanismaddressing an audienceaddressing a publicwhom shall

to a kind of record

I.we all looked and could see nothingwhat are we supposed to seewhat are we supposed to seethe inexhaustiblethe inexhaustiblehorizontorn from our handsValéry saidI cannot repeatdon’t be so dramaticthe sun fellin timethe sun fellwe spoke of thingsone spokein the dark outsideanother answeredValéry you have to answer foryou have to