the narrow and narrow
another situation
surely she’s got a brain because she’s a surgeon
you can fly through clouds now, feather-whipped and gosh that woman always looks so worried, and her husband’s no teeth though he always smiles
and people go on about the straight but not the narrow
bad associations, minded, claustrophobic
it’s not straight though it’s strait, narrow but for water
the narrow and narrow
the masculine urge to jump from high buildings
And you read a little book about books and paintings going missing
and the opposite of objects is not subjects but dust
a man in camo but smart shoes, is he off to a dinner in a trench
and the next day he’s in camo but wearing boots, is he off to war
Equinox is one of those words that comes from the ground
and are you too kind or the opposite or kind but short on time or kind to plants and animals and children or kind to sociopaths
and the meaning of birds and flowers in dreams is not random but belongs to their nature which you no longer know but can read about
A yellow finch or is it golden a white lily single behind a window
And daffodils exist as if to say hang on
and we talk on the wire about evil, paranoia, the museum
and the phrase honesty is the best policy
my favourite ones are the ones that have no origin but everywhere
and you say that an explanation of the world is a transposition of the kind of intelligence that one uses projected into the world, so that if thoughts tend towards complexity and paranoia then the world will be explained in this way and the paranoiac will seek to fill in all the unnamed holes with names
And the soul who believes that honesty is the best policy, even though a cynic reads this differently, will look for fewer causes, single reasons and be content with not knowing
But is pattern recognition the ability to see the simplest shapes in the most complex or the other way around
And you go to a bit of town where there are twenty pastry shops but everyone is thin
And you ask for a book and they have lost it, or someone has taken it, or someone has hidden it, well the system doesn’t know the range of human attitude to books
And you tell your friend that books are deemed worthless by the state unless they are no longer books but objects valued for rarity or firstness and he laughs
And you buy the book about books being stolen from people’s houses at night by mysterious forces and it’s a real horror story
and there is no difference between fake and real energy; no there is, there is what are you saying
It depends on the height; one feels the universe feeling itself but only sometimes
At church you are the crowd; the mob; well better that we think this than think that we are exempt; the stem that runs through us channels blood, channels water
and maybe you can turn the inside out
the inside into outside
how close are the birds allowed
how many insects in the room is okay
and the memory of the sun is weaker than the sun
and when you can’t read everything and no one can
Foucault says he read everything published in France up to a certain date but now it’s all subtraction
rather than crossing things, people off, a policy of whim and chaos
the core is always the core you have to read these, every book of the Bible
all the words in your house start with A poor Z
and yesterday’s reading growls
go outside
it’s raining but you can pretend it isn’t!