reading Robbe-Grillet grilled in The Paris Review

he respires  when one is a teacher one becomes a student again

 

   and I wait

 

                             I wait patiently as patiently as I could muster for him to say the obvious

when one becomes a student one is a teacher

to put asunder the hierarchy

shit flowing downhill

where there should be no hill

and if there is shit

it pools

taints

everyone steps in it

                                I burned all the sticks that they could scrape their soles with

rather everyone should have to walk it off

leave trails behind them and later are able to fingered by a good bloodhound

because they walked off separately not wanting to breathe the miasma of a coarse chorus line

   singularly dejected 

                       shufflingscuffing their soles on the street

Aaah  better

              though wishing they could scuff the scent

 

try as we may

irregardless

               we all step in it

  

1139,  Saturday,  14  5. 13

1011,  Reggaefriday,  21  4. 23

Beware: the Watchers

 

those also who watch Those who watch the Watchers

 

who cared – he thought – in this blasted Nation

                                                 vibrantly shaking with narcissists who are inclined to think they are worth the time expense an energy to be Watched an would take insult if they werent

 

he wanted to suggest a modest perhaps imperfect solution  allow those Remaining to opt out

 

take the tens of millions hunred million who slip an slide an intertwine like snakes in heat like myriad strands of DNA helices or maudlin RNA-voyeur single-strand nucleotides

an let them 

                          invigorate 

                        this self-replicating self-fulfilling two-way For-Profit Looking-Glass

 

but let those Remaining opt out

                                                                    those who devised their anonymity preferred their privacy who did things without regard of acknowledgment publicity

such things are still being done

                                  as inane as that may seem to many

 

the Remaining are nonlethal riptides an undertows  suddenunsuspected forces of Nature who prefer their lives unrecorded unremarkable go on about their day with good intentions  hopeful that goodness is either shared forward or eventually returns

                    individuals plying sensuous lives defying categories an rather than Watchers are thoughtful visceral observers

 

the two as different as day an night 

                                          at cross-purposes 

   Beware: the Watchers 

 

1603,  Twosday,  18  6. 13

0922,  Reggaefriday,  21  4. 23