exquisite corpse (courtesy of
Warpaint)
just what does that meanhes heard it before he searched his mind trying to put off the
first thing that entered ithe didnt want to entertain that just now what he was thinking sometimes he creeped himself out hed stick in pin in that and return to it later unforgettable he wanted to continue deeper
into his consciousness search that enormous closet he heaved things into knowing theyd be there for safe keeping however exactly where he hadnt a fucking idea hed have to carefully unlock the door he
slammed shut behind him to keep things inside carefully ease it open so the guts wouldnt tumble dump ooze onto the floor around his ankles then the
door sprung wide hed have to look very
hard piece by piece to find one thing from among the myriad of things he couldnt
or wouldnt let go
the door creaked anxiously as he
approached it There there now he said I havent come to stuff more inside you Im here to liberate somethingprobably liberate
a lot of things that likely will catch my eye or notion
the door sighed
it knew him not to be
a liar
his door was like the doors in his old family
home lock and key doors he had to take the ring of keys that hung
in the kitchen on the offchance someone may have locked the room he wanted inside of
then
his closet
he had the only key curiosity could kill family members
as easily as cats
he had an inordinate curiosity
but he also had a staid commonsense
to reveal his curiosity and allow others to either share what he asked or not
if they decided not to share he let it fall
he respected others privacies
he never understood why that was so
hard
or why some people became indignant if a party chose not to share they had no obligation to explain or answer No should suffice No wasnt meant to arouse their curiosity
even more so No should have killed it like a bullet to the brain that assuming the person No-ed had a brain
Ahyes
There Yes Cadavre exquis
he should have thought
to seek a foreign equivalent before digging his toe in the dirt fretting Surrealism
Idiot he had a shelf of books
dedicated to surrealism Breton Duchamp Tanguy Couldnt
forget Dorothea Tanningshe was elegantly disturbing frankly she put Ernst Max to shame he thought tohugth he thought tugward Ho the letters were there he didnt misspell
as much as he misaligned that could possibly be surrealism
Cadavre exquis was a twist on an old parlour
game players in turn wrote on a sheet of paper then folded it to conceal what
they wrote and passed it on to the next player
the surrealists adapted it rather than writing they drew body parts created exquisite corpses
he knew itd come to him eventually
a gentle threat to coax it
Awright
what he couldnt let go of earlierwhat
he knew he wouldnt forgethe had the memory of an elephant although it doesnt come cheap its work THAT exquisite corpse that exquisite corpse is a body before rigor
mortis sets in that loose joint pliable uncomplaining
not protesting body quietly amendable to things best he call them whims offcoloured
once upon a time bodies were plentiful
he hoped to be one
he hoped
to die outside the bitter confines of a wellintended hospice a vapid hospital
room or
a ward
a ward
1229, Twosday,
14 8. 18
Boards of Canada Dawn Chorus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRJ_uZClz4Y
