this is interesting, Janet, there's a certain novelty in its donnee (sp?) as
Henry James used to say.
I think the language needs more work, more excitation, more +thrum+, but
it's certainly a poem that could go somewhere.
Care
Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Janet Jackson" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 6:56 AM
Subject: "You are the person"
> A work in progress from two years ago,
> now getting some more work.
> Comments welcome.
>
> You are the person
> ------------------
>
> You are the person I am dressing up as.
>
> You are the woman at the hairdresser
> and the man on the stage
> and the person I want them
> to imagine, when they read
> my messages.
>
> You are full of pieces of everyone.
> You are awake at 4am
> talking intensely into a mobile phone
> in a bar somewhere in America.
>
> Then you are on your private broomstick,
> beaming yourself home and catching a nap
>
> Then you are having breakfast, just
> like anyone does, but later
>
> Then you are out, anywhere, clattering,
> prancing, gathering your pieces of everyone
>
> taking them back to your secret cauldron
> mixing them, making chequered magic
> in your stainless-steel kitchen
> in your weird old house
> with paintings by Dali and murals of yourself
> in your big black hat and boots and cloak
> with beat poets and musos and lamas and prophets
> and incense and alcohol hangin' in the air,
> y'know, you
>
> are the person I am dressing up as.
>
> Janet
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> Janet Jackson <[log in to unmask]>
> Poems at Proximity:
> http://www.arach.net.au/~huxtable/janet/proximity.html
>
> "As long as space remains,
> as long as sentient beings remain,
> until then, may I too remain
> and dispel the miseries of the world."
> Shantideva
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