10/31/00 - David Baptiste Chirot
31 October 2000
All Saints Eve
Halloween
crazy feeling in streets
music out of jukebox funeralfloating down unconcerned
nailing naked to stakesdead drifted in breeze
artificial sky cobalt blue
--plans and solutions pour in
hard reality given free rein--tremendous photographs traveled
in agility, mystery, sadnessuproars, Rivers, bluenesses
deliriums, rhtyhms, rednesses
Indian Summer sky
great shield gleamed--at first glance geniuses
knocked balistic ideas wild--strange secrecy of shadow
scenes never before seenskies lightnings waterspouts
breakers, currents, flock of dovesmonument bridge connected
cinema-tized site
--writing paper colossal
enormous Opera octavo--artist seeing pictures
knowing jukebox coffinimagined low-hanging sun mystic
horrors lighting coagulationsoverexposed picture
photographing photograph--parade every system,
invention and subterfuge--always taking pictures
jukebox coffins mysteriesantique dramas, distances
dreamed of dazzled eyesmonstrous light-bulb
projected
detached stills into eye--suggested, shaped, as expected
human aspect eyes revolving--bright liquid dusk secret
incantations never knownundreamed of singing
singing driftings ineffableenormous photograph
existed
enormous movie
continuous--concentric circles attract
fresh brilliant solutions--picture sun window setting
holy halo caught on filmmartyr lifted shadow-flower
pale-eyed clamouring into sleeppassed over water
axis
inert shape
unknown
cargo
--sky pilot turned on pictures
fabulous disaster died looking--
words from
Jack Kerouac
Intro to Robert Frank's
The Americans
Arthur Rimbaud
The Drunken Boat
Robert Smithson
A Tour of the Monuments of Passaic, New Jersey
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Death on the Installment Plan
arrangement by
dave baptiste chirot