I can imagine being dead –
and, presumably, removed as waste –
being, nevertheless, being,
more aware than I'd been living
alive to an aesthetic sense,
full of my own centrality
as one is of anything dominant
even if it is not present
knowing hearing filling a head
beyond the imagination
and impossible in one deceased
neither in heaven nor in hell
a consciousness concentrating
on now and now and now and now
to an outside metrication
without understanding without
the dimension of dimensions
a pendulum slowly turning
unto circles of rounding self
into circles of rounded self
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Lawrence Upton
Visiting Fellow, Music Dept,
Goldsmiths, University of London
New Cross, London SE14 6NW
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Lawrence Upton
Visiting Fellow, Music Dept,
Goldsmiths, University of London
New Cross, London SE14 6NW
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