in a dream, there are people that i know, a place that seems familiar, but out of season. you and i have a conversation made up of words i keep around. because i'm getting older, there is a narrator, a god, above the scene, afraid to wake up and lose track of those he loves, barely remembers, the things that have changed form below, awaiting the judgement.
i do wake up, in a pose that seems familiar, but looking at the wrong wall, wondering if i'm laying next to...you. i am. and jack, febrile, in a restless sleep with a damp forehead.
hurricane irene is skating the coast like a fist.
i finished vladimir sorokin's DAY OF THE OPRICHNIK, a czardom in future russia that's committing today's and yesterday's same surreal atrocities. rape theater and cetera. some scenes have the disturbing quality of SPIRITED AWAY, with their gluttony and cartoonish lust, and ghostly drug-fueled sauna scenes. too light-hearted in someways to be dystopian. satire, then, but not cruel, even though drenched in cruelty. giddy adventures of gladhanding and highway robbery. public executions and streams of profanity as political protest from the russian diaspora radio. here is CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, rewritten:
Охуенный удар невъебенного топора пришелся в самое темя триждыраспронаебаной старухи, чему пиздато способствовал ее мандаблядски малый рост. Она задроченно вскрикнула и вдруг вся как-то пиздапроушенно осела к непроебанному полу, хотя и успела, зассыха гниложопая, поднять обе свои злоебучие руки к хуевой, по-блядски простоволосой голове…'

2 comments:
whoa dude! that's some seriously twisted up prose. would there be a poetic analogy to such fiction writing?
great screen grab. love that film, SPIRITED AWAY!
richard, i don't know any poetry of that sort that's also of the same calibre.
i don't know if ginsberg isn't sometimes at things that way. of course, writing about gay love is totally different for him than it is for these oprichniki--in their orgy they are really all raping each other pretty brutally, another ritual akin to the game they play where they literally drill into each other's legs under the dinner table and break the bits off on their fellows' bones. i don't know if ginsberg was that interested in violence, or satire.
the overwhelming sense of brutality is probably straight out of CRIME AND PUNISHMENT--raskolnikov's dream of a horse being flogged to death.
speaking of--christopher hitchen's new article in vanity fair, where he waxes philosophical on living beyond tolerance, the wish that one HAD died: http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2012/01/hitchens-201201
he cites that dostoyevsky scene as the possible source nietzche's late epiphanies, while in the throes of syphilis.
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