( via / oil painting by me )

Some Songs I Know, Goth or Goth-Adjacent.

"keeping up with the trash"

1.
forensic peer, puzzles
pitch sibilant williwaw
      graygreen dusk
   what is it now
threadbare but till · the last packet
   of sweetener

2.
only the bad guys perish
in this film. finish
of bright lights. finish
of nevermind what you can't control.

waking not in the dark.
waking with a purpose
for the sound to cease

artists in 80s movies

3.
ev'ry last crime counted
correlations made

between breakfast & coffee

this shiny umber floor
prospect of weeks

while the world slides
into chaos & punishment

we've constructed something
precious, a feather poised

on the tip of a car aerial

"For a brief moment, the phone system had been dragged back into kit time."

" More and more, people are taking action to resist this death march toward the convenient, the cheap, the artificial, the synthetic, the homogenous, and the repressed toward a more authentic way of living and relating to each other, back toward what we know is real." —Seeds of Eden via

I have a lot of sympathy with the ideas here (especially with the primary texts & reading out loud)...except they are leaving a lot of tacit assumptions in the word "beauty" that require, at the very least, not just a syllabus but a 𝑏𝑟𝑜𝑎𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 & 𝑑𝑒𝑒𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑓 𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠, now that we can only by willful ignorance not take into account the many different things that have been called by that word. Otherwise, it's a stand-in for insular & ahistorical thinking. The accumulation of art & knowledge that we call a tradition deserves better.