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Tuesday, 31 January 2012

words from the map: strangers!



three strangers

1

The big red doors pushed in off their hinges. So somebody, not the wind, scrape marks in the red paint. Probably a car so the person driving, driving off. Or people, do people drive a car or a person? The question is accidentally or on purpose. D said there is a possibility it was accidental.

2

He wasn't strange enough for me to sit in the back given that he would often drive G and they liked each other so I sat in the front. He told me what I already knew about G but he would have known things about G that I would not have known - knowing someone as an accumulative process of seeing them and hearing them. So I saw him sideways and quickly here and there and I heard the sound of his voice and I heard the use of his voice and I heard and saw his position. His position was not simply next to me at the steering wheel, there was more to it.

3

D told me he was a bit of a character. It was all about when he was ready to so something, ready to do it now, and he was very careful. Impatient enough for it to seem like he would not do the thing, but careful enough that he would see it through. I saw and I heard two things about him and after he fixed the doors and I was holding the doors on the phone D told me two things about him that are sort of the opposite but they are not two sets of opposite things they are four things you can see and you can hear he has.


Monday, 30 January 2012

words from the map: domesticity



apart is to approach others who are being apart
apart is not to approach others who are not, who are there

apart is to see street life and public life
apart is to observe or to engage in

apart is to interrupt or not interrupt other business
apart is to interrupt or not interrupt other behaviour

apart is to guess
apart is to divine

here is to speculate
here is to write a novel


Saturday, 28 January 2012

words from the map: (initials standing for names of 7 family and 3 other names)



initial #3

this given name in writing or pronounced is

how we pass you
how we see you
how we say we see you we pass you

it is to you the special name of you.

Is your species those to whom your name is special

or are you my sibling?

We share a family name

and some things were mine
and some things were yours
and some things we had to share

between our given names an

and

these days is rare :(


Thursday, 26 January 2012

words from the map: (initials standing for names of 7 family and 3 other names)



initial #2

this one letter

is it M

this one letter of 26

is

the first initial of your name
a capital letter

this one letter
a simple mnemonic

like you, one

one, like you were
not and like you
were and like you

are not

is not R


Tuesday, 24 January 2012

words from the map: (the name of the cinema where I work)



in a box

resembling the formal box, name of employer

in a box

and also the rough outline of the building


sort of villanelle 2

sort of villanelle



this is the sort of phrase I mean
this is the sort of phrase I don't
this is the sort of phrase I intend

this is the sort of phrase I want
this is the sort of phrase I don't want
this is the sort of phrase I mean

this is the sort of phrase I had in mind
this is the sort of phrase I hate
this is the sort of phrase I intend

this is the sort of phrase required
this is the sort of unnecessary phrase
this is the sort of phrase I mean

this is the sort of phrase demanded
this is the not that sort of phrase
this is the sort of phrase I intend

this is the sort of phrase I will use
this is the sort of phrase I wish I hadn't
this is the sort of phrase I mean
this is the sort of phrase I intend