'Much tactile nausea.' well describes the effect, Lawrence.
And then, there's the for whom effect, which is interesting, too....
Doug
On 9-Jun-10, at 4:05 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
> It’s hard to make a picture of the man.
> He likes cross currents in their ambiguities;
> as if escaping, though he texts and bawls;
> unknown in crowds, always in some or more.
>
> But what real shape is he? Who is it?
> He’s so distressed; he could be quite ugly,
> I suppose. No. He’ll be o.k.. Normal.
> Nothing that special. One of those. Like us.
>
> What he voices! It’s like a weeping boil.
> He’s angry; and pimples can be so-called
> when they are ready to emit the sap.
>
> Smell. Much tactile nausea. Damp swelling boy.
> Those things he says! Abhors women. Problems
> with a body and daily carcass product.
>
>
> --
>
> Lawrence Upton
> AHRC Creative Research Fellow
> Dept of Music
> Goldsmiths, University of London
>
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