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i don't think that sort of thing is possible anymore
2022
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tell me anything
about the details but if you –
yeah – exactly what i meant
â–
what’s the first thing you say i mean it’s
(filmic, sort of, not french
when who wins still matters)
that it’s brave, am i honoured?
(tremble at, to dare be worthy of, like
but it is an award, no césar, but)
i guess i am, it is, as in
privileged to witness
is there a better word than bravery?
(judith butler in verso said there wasn’t but
not that, have to explain)
just if now’s, i feel sick
for you, empathy
but sick, yes, sick, yes
emphy—
semic emphasis is not
i meant i or rather we
care about each other and baby
it's midnight, so
let me walk us home
the anxio-tectonic crush, the long dry
shout of blood-cum-steam up the gullet
to the breathless prophecy of america
listen – don’t listen – ‘til what’s to come
clashes as cymbals and the simplest, all
are the one, the same prophetess as ever –
focus the S – and the least visible world
as it— no, not always is that – there
the stream of it – filled with everything
except whatever the hell you just said
â–
better put the question is whether it’s
so worth saying, like, trauma, stresses of
is it so special it’s not part of nature?
as to say, won’t the night eat it whether
or not
it's confessed, but here you are assuming
again
we watched the same children’s animes
as you
were stuck with the same mad notion
what matters is what’s true and not
what – if we let it – can fade