XIV.
define muscle
shoulder whole wheel
week
axle-tree
in all things he will excel me
Knausgaard
Karl Ove to his son
as a son from the point of view
of love my son asks me
to reattach the sterile patch
quickly his wounded arm
he will be leaving is it for us
is it for us to carry on
quickly to carry on
define muscle turning on the axle-tree
I can think of no better thing to say and
have no greater wish to wish him
I will tell him I wish that in all things
he will excel me Karl Ove said so
quickly I reattach the sterile plaster
to his open sore
…
it is inexcusable to use the phrase mortal weight
in an invented scenario I don’t believe abstraction
gains any height from it I don’t wish to pontificate
and inexcusable to lift the straw man of the left
on the railroad of disappointment China Miéville
imagines is a railway to invent imagine
a wanker in a hotel room or suicide I am her
do I clean do I wash am I soiled it is
from the wound of my mouth justified
wound we share we who have opened
each other’s legs
sickles
