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From: | Stanislaus Perez |
Subject: | [Emonkey-announce] trivia marketer |
Date: | Fri, 8 Sep 2006 11:22:12 -0600 |
This then is the world that Percival sees no
longer.
You have lost a leader whom you would have
followed; andone of you has lost happiness and children.
I shall never again walk bang into thepillar-box.
All London is uneasy withflashing lights.
We have been hauled over the shingle, down to the
sea.
The figure that was robed in beauty is now clothed
in ruin.
I shall go mixed with them beyond mybody and shall
see India. Pain is suspended as a girlsilently slides open a drawer. They did not
wrinkle their noses andscratch their foreheads with your precise
gesture.
I do not wish to be a man who sits for fifty
yearson the same spot thinking of his navel. People are so soon gone; let us catch
them. An axe has split a tree to the core; the core is warm; soundquivers within the
bark.
These are the true cycles,these are the true
events.
It is the hour when Miss Johnson bringsme my
letters in a wire tray.
That is, if I discover a new vein in myself Ishall
submit it to you privately. I wish to be harnessed toa cart, a vegetable-cart that
rattles over the cobbles.
Now, through my own infirmity Irecover what he was
to me: my opposite. The sand was pearl white, smoothed and shining. A million
handsstitch, raise hods with bricks.
As a drop falls from a glassheavy with some
sediment, time falls.
Outside lines twist and intersect, but round
us,wrapping us about. Meeting and parting, we assemble different forms,
makedifferent patterns. I am half in love with the typewriter and the telephone. I
sit here like a convalescent, like a verysimple man who knows only words of one
syllable.
I am no longer amazed by names written over
shop-windows.
I neverwish to prolong these states of detachment;
I dislike them; I alsodespise them.
So Neville, at school, in the dimchapel, raged at
the sight of the doctors crucifix.
They did not wrinkle their noses andscratch their
foreheads with your precise gesture.
Mr Prentice at four; Mr Eyres sharpat
four-thirty.
We have eaten beef and pudding enough to live for
aweek without tasting food. Ideas break a thousand times for once that they
globethemselves entire. Jinny, pirouetting across the room, will perch on the arm of
hischair and ask, Did he love me?
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