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from Uncertain Futures



BY HECK

general opportunities   find out about our work
lunch will be provided   the website is now live
the records are not selling   problems are not solved
increasingly invaded   a pattern will emerge

virtual performance   impossible exchange
journey into disability   get experience & support
clowning's a state of playfulness   find the fool within
please explore the writing space   the industrial age of print

promises are hard to keep   that photograph of you
blur of invented metaphor   scales out of true
afterlife or afterwards?   answers in the wind
fumbling with your sweatshirt   shutting up the mind

stolen light or lantern   this studio is mine
now midwinter's been & gone   let's head toward sunshine
prophecy's out of the question   perhaps we'll all pull through
secret societies & brotherhoods   things happen   as they do


DEFINED BY OPPOSITION

a substitute for something real   the same postmodern fog
biting   snapping at the world   images of god
I am not seeing what you are   I am not sure at all
underlining lots of words   settling for 'unreal'

before the sidewalk ceremony   places hard to find
too polite and too restrained   social skills refined
the many futures possible   interactive fiction
how to judge the whole event   value pure & simple

frequent if irregular   index of permission
I have never heard of him   what do you recommend?
what if we were serious?   some real blood might come
little point in quoting   it feels less restrained

privilege now pointless   power remakes the world
people are still children   forever is consumed
watermark upon a bill   accepted as the truth
vacate memory body pack   give us the edge in life



ROCK & ROLL SINGER

rowing across the ocean   cast away delight
more drawing & less painting   keep it black & white
information as event   finality of death
something not connected   networks now controlled

no transcendent dimension   all you need is dynamite
confrontation is what counts   space may be torn apart
the banality of music   birds singing for their lives
always state your units   pissed out of his mind

processed by the programme   words best sung aloud
different in performance   ear kept to the ground
I have done all that I can   there's nothing left to know
straight in from the airport   straight on with the show

higher definition   please confirm these dates
spiral & repetition   the rules of its own game
adolescent wonder   jump around and see
in the filter of the void   contradictory




SELF PORTRAIT WITH BOTTLES & BRICKS

composite of figures   horizon in the dark
discursive presentation   magnetic pole of faith
inharmonious state of doubt   fundamental codes
past & future collaborate   destroy skin & thought

disintegration & complexity   cognitive abandon
conceptual deviation   expected content drained
elements of reality   fragments of model proof
imagined grainy footage   ironic whispered truth

labyrinth & enigma   seemingly shared ground
dreams of immortality   self-identity defined
recurring motifs & cartoons   stretched to breaking point
the forger replaces the traitor   can't forget his debt

impossible definitions   the magic of glass rooms
the silhouettes of shadows   endless traffic flows
unreal suspension & silence   the spirit indisposed
we must emerge from exile   build economies of hope

 

Copyright © Rupert M Loydell, 2007