XXII.
what did you say to her
I was wrong
enormous ladies of the morning
reverse the trend of fat young men
the ad reads sex for life appears often often appears on a facing page appears to mean sex for life for not against a struggle struggle not effaced sex for life for a life appears not occluded appears to appeal to sex unexpected to mean what do you mean what do you mean to say men an appeal for men an appeal for one for one meaning a sentence sentence of life life sentence an appeal against
for a life
for a sex a sex for a life entirely unexpected for
not against what part do you see for this health this health this health I will not practice inclusivity I will not participate in my own capture
struggle for life affirm without occlusion
disjointed disparate in flight effaced
events repeat and
writes Piglia for Renzi
Ricardo Piglia for Emilio Renzi
expand
off into the distance ever ever ever
trail your fingers ever in the blue reflected sky
the Bacon dust
Blaze on your fingers bring your father
what did you say
he saw you brought
I see my brother
he saw you brought to him
something
off into the distance and now coming forward
says you brought to him
his own
my own
something
dust from the studio
his own
my own
swelling anticipation rising from a deep mind place
a space of air
unburied
and a turn a split
I was wrong
I said what we were all expecting
didn’t happen
something
entirely unexpected took
its place
sex for life
the old man hits the dog
the dog escapes
what does the dust say
when the dog escapes
explain
the existence of ideology
the German ewig ewig ewig doubt
he hits the dog
hits him and it’s a bitch is it
hits her
hits her and hits her and hits her
the risk in explaining her captivity
the risk in explaining something
intimate the more disgusting the less
fat young men
doubt
and when the dog escapes she runs away
off into the distance ever
and the old man searches for it desolate
desolately unexpected
for her I said
will not participate in my own
will not participate
he searches for it
he searches for her
desolately
throughout the city
