we embraced the candor the Audacity
of Hope
hard to imagine it perverted
and replaced by selfish
perhaps criminal insolence
and never a rival of our first Black
President
1606, Friday,
4 8. 17
4.8.17
3.8.17
De Profundis Georg Trakl he died of a cocaine overdose in Krakow
Poland more than one hundred years ago
De Profundis was translated from German by Michael Hamburger to whom he was
introduced(alleviating him of his personal O-blivion) by The Rings of Saturns WG
Sebald(what we write owns us – not the other way around)
in its text Trakl wrote On my forehead cold metal forms.
Spiders look for my heart.
There
is a light that fails in my mouth.
At night I found myself upon a heath.
Thick with garbage and the dust of stars.
In the hazel copse
Crystal angels have sounded once more.
(he would like to hear it recited in German)
De Profundis means from the depths and is associated with Psalm 130s
incipit(the practise of referring to texts by their initial words)
while he could refer to De Profundisread its words consider them
quote them
he could
never have written them
he might occasionally turn his eyes to despair to watch it but while
watching he backpedaled put ground between him and It
Despair wants victimswants Its redmeat
the gore
Despair is a slow cancer it is an
attitude of waiting and if one is forced
to act desperately their desperation provides little room to exercise raSHəˈnal
like Everyone(he thinks he thinks others
think like himhopes they think like him it
is his Idealism thinking its winning out Its not
It tinges his perspective) it is
good to balancebe aware of the Dark and the Light aware of the slivered spectrum
running from polar blackest-white to polar whitest-black to try to embrace truly
moderation to be as perfectly Grey as possible while
knowing nothing Human is perfect
so while he can spy on despair see
it realeyes it he keeps it on a distant horrorizon and lives
his life beyond the reach of its shadow
beyond the heath Thick with garbage and the dust of stars
0957, Thursday, 3 8.
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