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6.
Hahn - Martini/Sanguineti
your happiness had been my duty:
it was not a pleasure, but an error
and/or a horror: (if you’ll lend me your handy housewife’s
[butcher knife for a second,
I’ll gut myself in a flash on the cutting board: and this will suffice,
[this parsley-chopping anti-
diluvian half-moon shape, to puree myself into micro bits, to flay
[myself into mush,
into stuffing, into this decomposed dough, this pernicious
[poultice: a catastrophe):
I tell you, and I say again: you were my planet, my alabaster slab:
[(and in you I jam myself,
to sketch you, create you (make me, make us) a human figure): (a
[life, stuffed and seasoned):
8.
before telling you about the other matters (the material dialectic
[pictures) I collected
today (that I set down here, always for you, so im Stillstand, they
[say, and I believe it):
(so im Stilleben), I would gladly dwell on my modest foregoing
text: but, at the moment, you need to be content with this Hôtel
[Méridien (with its
keys, or rather, its VingCard System), given the time, where I lose
[myself, lose you, (how I’ll get out,
if I make it, who knows), but where I quickly snatch, if nothing
[else, the extreme echoes
of a dismal day, in which I told you: just to say, think about it,
[look, it’s easy,this life:
(but it’s over, in the restroom is written VOUS ÊTES ICI:
9.
the transition to “creativity and development,” afterwards (and
[after all) seemed smooth enough:
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