How can it be that the gas chamber door opens inwards?
(to David Irving)
the occasion is Smoking Mirror, an exhibition–Flarf
to execrate the despicable English practice of riding to hound
–W.S. Burroughs
he’s asking in the wrong colour!
–Seance Recording (anon)
what it is | to outselect | the egregious shadow | assemblage |
of flickers | the flickering voice | half-memory | a gestalt |
of fireflies | & rattle | of redacted love | of the Ramp |
of that confluence | of whispers | gargled up | in evoking |
of the | noisy spirit | beyond | the machinery of |
blue saturates | tested for at | Birkenau | Auschwitz |
by weight of | its own inertia | so to assail | a weakness |
prying alone | alone with the conviction | with such fervour | thereby mining |
with the fixation | of a boy | digging out | his first living spine |
that such determination | sapping away | a bulwark | artfully |
might | who might just bring | the walls coming down | with fumbling |
with the flagship | at the blowing | thrice O thrice | of the trebuchet |
trumpet trumpet | and canary | glossolalia there look listen | with jerks & squawks of |
trumpet | that thou art | in thy posture & | mild hooting hubris |
thy resolve | to be other but | always in pursuit | and hot sneer |
of what is truly | as the fall | of clouds cry now | in deadly blue |
& otherwise | spirited | from your holes | of deadness flushed |
for the shoving | your redcoat tripes | in those faces | of deluded boys |