Thursday, 26 February 2009

LI YI-QI, A FREE ROVER ON THE BROAD BRIGHT BREEZY COMMON OF THE UNIVERSE COMES ACROSS A MYSTERY: PERINDE AC CADAVER




"Love, taken seriously, is outlawed".



Why write novels?

dreams, visions and dark

sentences

rewrite history

after all everything

through him

came up

as

a sparrow

before him;

became

and

apart-from

him

became

not-even

one-thing:

chaos

in the clearing

knowing nothing

you invented

mystery (almost

a skepticism)

Gehenna of

la vida cotidiana

the punishment?

return to the paradise

of the earth

earthy assassins

------ me

hired gun

who works

to be ecstatic

alone

and kills

(Tush, you shall

not die)

snakes

and risks

all for

this return

our each

day's bread

give us

today

whose work is

criminal
(against the norm)

whose pleasure is

criminal

(against the law)

invents wildly

paying

scant attention

to connectives

'till

over his head

and

under his feet

the true

and

lively

word

burned

in his mouth

and

the darkness

it not overcame;

and the

first

secret

was learnt

in the

Orient.



David Colledge, Santiago de Chile, August 2002

















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