and with retorted scorn his back he turned ~Milton


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George Vance
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George Vance 2009

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This thing he wanted to do was not properly speaking proscribed by the ethos into
which he had been born, nor heartily encouraged in a systematic manner, but was,
in moments of public rituals of license, such as theater evenings or cinema after-
noons, instinctively applauded. And its imperative nature was compounded - almost
as starkly as the wanted thing itself - by the clean-planed corridors of
the medium in which he conceived forward toward its enactment.
Volition was process; objects obstacles to be brushed aside.

stand/sit/lean/walk purposefully, directionlessly - the vectors
arrowed at him from all sides : a rectangle between two
subjects a clear channel between two objects a right
turn a knight's el move cul-de-sac niche of blank
wall at the end of a shelf up the unclimbed steps to the
mezzanine behind a gray steel cabinet with numbers
in white squares unthwarted swipes past a hundred sundry
ABC'd rubrics stopgostandstill: wire-driven forkliftlike
scanningchecking

pure isolate cubicles ceiling tiles
brightwhitelight metal stairflights
tough-blue carpets oblong pillars
square-empty shadows of shelf-
ends

zoom in on
zoom at
the self-hallowing spot
reflecting wonder
in an open field-like space
desk door reading table
to-and-fro-ing :
an outrage

yet:

like blood on a tulip sweat on cri-
nolin smegma on a lemon tart a
booger on a blank page barf on a
créche shit in an ode pus..

too           late

Thereafter he often returned to the place where the thing he had wan¬ted had not happened, where it had once hovered, pulsing without his accomplishing accession. He thought of roping off the spot in some secret non-visible way, to enshrine the site of his unachieved wish, making a religion of want, but there were no boundary materials ready to hand.

 

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George Vance
©
George Vance 2009

George Vance is a Paris based poet and has read at many Paris venues. His work has been published
in Paris journals Upstairs at Duroc & Pharos

 

 


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