My poor tired eyes, a woman sings.
How else may I survive but by decease?
It’s in the rules and they shall not be changed.
Each may not be. We cannot be. I’ll die.
I’ve seen too much. I shall not belong.
Our impoverishments accumulate.
They’ve an extravagance of ambition.
That is my course. I’ll die. Who’ll know the cause?
I hum myself in dreams but do not sleep,
not properly at all. The dead wake me
and we work. I’ve come too far. My feet are high
above the sea over several moons.
I look into your face and know it’s true:
I cannot see you clearly for the sun.
--
"The desire to testify": interview with Chris Goode
http://intercapillaryspace.blogspot.com/2010/02/desire-to-testify.html
["the fullest, or at least the broadest, account I've yet given of what it
is I think I do and what questions underwrite it" Chris Goode]
‘a song and a film’ by Lawrence Upton -- Veer Publications / Writers Forum
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‘snap shots and video’ by Lawrence Upton -- Writers Forum
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Lawrence Upton
AHRC Creative Research Fellow
Dept of Music
Goldsmiths, University of London
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