Genya Turovskaya, p.1
PLACEBO AFFLICTION
1.
the defect of those who do not
tolerate the minute particles
remember this is the new world strain
toward one radius some to another
sum of all
happiness is not a potato
to remit
our dismaying origins we
(in) (need of)
must count ourselves dire
among those for whom there can be no forbearance
in this book or elsewhere
the unluckiest ones of all
2.
upstream beautiful theories
their ships had
suffered the limits of their bodies
with uneasy heart
some fragment of their lunacy
consented for the sake
of rhythms more inexorable
a thousand circadian cartwheels
ludicrous circus marvels of the emperor
of manual occupation
again in our little bed
motor idling
in the mitigation of loneliness
3.
what alleviated
what
forsworn by the damage
careful of the censors I am now
reliant on
false
papers evening vagaries
ride the tourist bus through the
bad neighborhoods
snapping
snapping
4.
like anything that has been broken once will
break again abruptly
iron weathered
powdering into gray states
weeping in the elevator
Death is so alarming
(the length to which)
(the impossible subject)
less and less
a pensioner a baby’s head
its armature so small and languishing
held out
her arms to me
let me
do the work of my life
1.
the defect of those who do not
tolerate the minute particles
remember this is the new world strain
toward one radius some to another
sum of all
happiness is not a potato
to remit
our dismaying origins we
(in) (need of)
must count ourselves dire
among those for whom there can be no forbearance
in this book or elsewhere
the unluckiest ones of all
2.
upstream beautiful theories
their ships had
suffered the limits of their bodies
with uneasy heart
some fragment of their lunacy
consented for the sake
of rhythms more inexorable
a thousand circadian cartwheels
ludicrous circus marvels of the emperor
of manual occupation
again in our little bed
motor idling
in the mitigation of loneliness
3.
what alleviated
what
forsworn by the damage
careful of the censors I am now
reliant on
false
papers evening vagaries
ride the tourist bus through the
bad neighborhoods
snapping
snapping
4.
like anything that has been broken once will
break again abruptly
iron weathered
powdering into gray states
weeping in the elevator
Death is so alarming
(the length to which)
(the impossible subject)
less and less
a pensioner a baby’s head
its armature so small and languishing
held out
her arms to me
let me
do the work of my life