Sunday, 24 February 2013

ADHUC NOX EST

Zhou looks forward to the frozen river in dreams,
To the enormous charm of this unity
Which does not dazzle, but slays.
 
He said nothing to anyone for he was afraid,
Thinking: the scarcity of good, and the secret police…
Still night it is when I put out my hands this way
 
And that. Pleasures and days protected by the hangman
Indeed: When I stop being puzzled and persuade you
To do something different I dream of words,
 
The independently conceived effect of one upon another:
Radio slogans: Benzedrine. An account perhaps of other
Rhythms of earthly human history in this fateful
 
Philosophical world: laws of the state.
Laws of the Underworld. Well, it all needs thinking about.

 

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