Wednesday, August 17, 2016
African Meditation (1985)
African Meditation
Maracha Hospital
Uganda, 1985
A calm sea,mist in the valley
and no wind at all.
This veil,does it ever tear
and what do you want
in or out
or is it much the same?
Cut.
Flesh leaps to the side.
This now the cavity, open
and somehow too bright.
Then, the fingers gently probing,
does this tear?
Or cut again
expose the whole in parts,
connected contents of a hole
What will you find,
more perforations
and then?
In or out
or is it much the same?
Stitch.
Close up.
And cover the naked heart.
Why not.
A ray of light put on its proper course,
but will you bend the stars?
A sudden wind
shaking the fog
A light much too bright.
And then again
a day as calm as a calm sea.
Was a calm sea ever safe?
There
a spider lurking in the dark,
a patient pendulum,
and the moon settles to look at
you
And still this veil, these perforations,
clear enough.
Sleep now.
Wake tomorrow.
A rhythm of heart and breath.
Waves of a calm sea.
Good night.
Maracha Hospital
Uganda, 1985
A calm sea,mist in the valley
and no wind at all.
This veil,does it ever tear
and what do you want
in or out
or is it much the same?
Cut.
Flesh leaps to the side.
This now the cavity, open
and somehow too bright.
Then, the fingers gently probing,
does this tear?
Or cut again
expose the whole in parts,
connected contents of a hole
What will you find,
more perforations
and then?
In or out
or is it much the same?
Stitch.
Close up.
And cover the naked heart.
Why not.
A ray of light put on its proper course,
but will you bend the stars?
A sudden wind
shaking the fog
A light much too bright.
And then again
a day as calm as a calm sea.
Was a calm sea ever safe?
There
a spider lurking in the dark,
a patient pendulum,
and the moon settles to look at
you
And still this veil, these perforations,
clear enough.
Sleep now.
Wake tomorrow.
A rhythm of heart and breath.
Waves of a calm sea.
Good night.
Enthumanisierung und Gesundheitsreform (1989)
Nächstenliebe nach Vorschrift
Der Verantwortungsparagraph
Seelenapostroph
Verordnetes Leiden
Die da oben sitzen
schalten und walten
obwalten
verwalten
anwalten und zerwalten
zerrwalten
Jene verwallten Gestalten
verstaucht und verstopft
gehören umgetopft
umgekopft
entduftet und entlüftet
entmottet
umgewaltet
abgewaltet
entwaltet
endwaltet
Diese Gewalten
gehören geschrumpft und geschröpft
entsaftet,geköpft
zertrocknet
gereinigt
bereinigt
zereinigt
vereint und gemein
entsorgt
als Gartenzwerge
in die Umlaufbahn,
auf den Mond
aufs Abstellgleis
ausrangiert
entgiert
und verwaltet
in Obhut:
Pflegschaft
nach Vorschrift
Anmerkung:
Zur Gesundheitsreform
oder
Deutsche Art:
Vermächtnis der Enthumanisierung
Van Gogh, On the verge of insanity, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
"I well knew that one could break one’s arms and legs before, and that then afterwards that could get better but I didn’t know that one could break one’s brain and that afterwards that got better too."
To Theo from Arles, 28 January 1889
"Ah well, I risk my life for my own work,
and my reason has half foundered in it
To Theo from Auvers, 23 July 1890
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