"Incursion"

The shadows lengthen In forms Of
the One quick nocturnal
Interloper could leave you at
times assuages.
Having found
He'sky lie too?
It'till my lilies
You'think about to Maremma! Approaches. Salt Is said
that saddest light, sodium attack Converts tragedy to wield
such a bulwark of emptiness?
Is high parabolas Or culture.
Furnishings are masked.
hours.

(10/03)

'...whenever there are political parties, democracy is
dead.' --Weil, L'Enracinement (1943)

'Uprootedness breeds idolatry.' --ibid

'The realism which I care about and want is what happens
in the head of the spectator and not what is on the screen.'
--Fassbinder

'Scepticism is a bad conductor of poetry.' --Jean Cocteau

Self knowledge looks like destruction when the knowledge
is of a self-destructive self, but that knowledge really only
destroys those incompatible illusions we mistook for part
of us, and which were crippling us. The most convincing,
ubiquitous illusion is power. As "knowledge" is an incom-
plete, context-less understanding, so power is action
without considering consequences; the adage "Knowledge
is power" is subsumed by "Understanding is powerless
doing" (wei-wu)...

'Of all the parts of the body there is none so cold as
the brain.' --Aristotle

'The public is content to admire doors which go nowhere.'
--Cocteau (1921)

Idea: that consciousness arises in those who are ON THE
EDGE--of cultures, races, classes, sexes, conditions,
sanity, history, places, etc--they have familiarity with two
different modes of being which prevents them from falling
into either conformity... Consciousness is nature healing
a split in humans.

The role of the artist has become untenable, just when the
myth of the artist has reached its furthest inflation. It is
time to say: Human is enough.

All day long we wear the face that monkeys reserve for
a lion about to eat them.