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Today’s sin, irremediably
Posted in USSR May 12th, 2009 by Tongue-tied Lightning

Word on the street is pinko’s closing so this is my last post, Duvel is a beer, Willem is a bird, the piedigger is Heidegger and his favorite character is Dasein - which I mistransbliterate, Dehsihn.  The germ-man is Nietzsche, and best read on an empty stomach with ‘Strangers’ by the Kinks playing in the background.

…and slowly learning
to believe that you can’t
listen to DCfC because
AnCo and Yea make much more
well-informed music I
open the piedigger to a
random page and he says
Uncanniness reveals itself
authentically in the basic
state-of-mind of anxiety
and so I begin to wonder
well if I don’t feel
anxious listening to these
affirmative bands am I
then feeling less uncanny,
and thus being less
authentic, and is enjoyment
had at the price of honest
prurience, and is it Duvel,
is it Duvel, is it Duvel

Drivel.  Better to have the
split than be a well-formed
ego.  Better to h-a-l-v-e than to
be.  And so if I enjoy now
and then this is better than
to be, being
always anxious, better
to enjoy half the time and
ignore the rest, better to
enjoy and never rest, better
to be always talking and
listening and do I have the
same shirt as him and
let’s just go out and forget
who we are, forget who we be,
always and again.

But on the page before
the piedigger italicizes
In conscience
Days Inn calls itself.  But
I’m forgetting I’m not going
to remember and so look
at all these dutch about
their days going on call,
calling on one another, topping
up and losing their cells
in the cancer of a late night
and who’s to
say oblivion isn’t good
for the health.  Doctors
on their pagers and on
the same page the piedigger
says The call comes
from me and yet from
beyond me
, gosh this is a
good random page, you were
expecting him and yet
you weren’t and then
your pants rumble in
more ways than one and
you perk I mean pick up.
From and from beyond
me I see canals lined
with houseboats and all
the little Willems speckling
the trees, doting on their
feathers, and I sigh.
This book is too goddam
much, I think, as the
lady next to me hangs
up and drags her cig and
I look down to read
Indeed the call is precisely
something which we ourselves
have neither planned nor
prepared for, nor voluntarily
performed; and of course it’s
not cells but the goddam
conscience he’s talking about,
he’s talking about the calling
that comes from me and yet from
beyond me I can see
the billboards for a beer
I recognize but dislike,
Duvel is so much sweeter,
Duvel is so much lighter, he
is mine and no one else
has hardly ever heard of
him I have him any
place I can.

I do not wish to confuse
you but can you not
see.  I am incapable of
sitting still, and the germ-
man says he likes brief
habits and so do I,
and so do you so let’s
go and forget who we do
you really care, does anyone,
it’s all going to shit anyway
so what’s the difference
if we and that one there
yes I like her, don’t
you Duvel, don’t you, get
into me and let’s follow
and maybe something will
happen, forget the goddam
morose piedigger, forget
morose, get verbose, get into
me and let’s follow, she’s
going to the park, they all
go to the park and even
if she’s not I will and
it will be warm there,
sunny and sweet, sweet and
simple as a Days Inn
and I will sleep and
she will come to me and I
won’t have to remember
to forget and get into me
Duvel, get in Duvel, get in, get in . . . .


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3 Comments

  1. Sturgeon General says

    per pinkos:
    Not closing. Reopening.

    per your poem:
    un-being, leisure vacillatween pleasure and dis-ease.
    a mind forgoing the conscious by way of its conscience

    May 13th, 2009 | #

  2. Tongue-tied Lightning says

    per your per, yes.

    wasn’t meant as a poem, that’s how it fit on my lines. it’s a poegraph, or paratry, depending on your mood. perhaps we could have a selective cleanup. let the hermits hide in the hills, so to speak.

    May 14th, 2009 | #

  3. KSR One says

    I belive a tongue tied man once wrote that “She affirms the multiplicity and turbulence of vocatinal callings over and against the theological artifice that can contain them, those separate wills in a unified, Biblical knowledge.”

    I came across those lines today at my desk and thought of these lines
    Drivel. Better to have the
    split than be a well-formed
    ego. Better to h-a-l-v-e than to
    be. And so if I enjoy now
    and then this is better than
    to be, being
    always anxious, better
    to enjoy half the time and
    ignore the rest, better to
    enjoy and never rest, better
    to be always talking and
    listening and do I have the
    same shirt as him and
    let’s just go out and forget
    who we are, forget who we be,
    always and again.

    Perhaps we cannot be fully unified by knowing that God is one. But I badly want to be more than half, but half my understanding of the One and ignoring my ignorance of the other half makes me hopefully that I may be a better listener, learner, scholar.

    May 19th, 2009 | #

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