5/11/00
no dawn yet
prison at the edge
grounds close to wall
through chink in fence
God's try to see
far-fetched letter vigils
sections of personality
drunken ever-lower depths
wrote sinking multiplicity
see only strip of sky
high earthen wall
course weeds day and night
long years go on coming
emotional basically
very lonely couldn't
stand alone
fact of parasites
rapid decline of bookings
cruel poverty-stricken cold
wind tore concrete structures
invincible attacked intensity
countless devastating gusts
go on peep through chink
same way will see same
same wall same strip of sky
sky over prison strip of sky
honky-tonk beer joint
variety hated conclusion
suicide left as star
production
pulled high-class bookings
for skid row
imagine far wide form
irregular shut in by fence
high deeply into earth
touching strengthened outer prison
conflicting stories wreck
control
body functions bony frame
as meat
more and more future
was a long time
seeing head skinned up
was pretty shape
icy wind poisonous blew
reeling walls tumbled ruins
twisting rubble stirring odor
detested house groaned in blast
strong gate always closed
always guarded day and night
opened out to work outside
gate world of light like the rest
worked and performed
spirits
high one day down the next
comin' back to go to work
returning big-time mind to
close
living this side of picture
world unattainable world apart
unlike, of its own its own its own
house of living dead nowhere else
never made it, making
trying
making halting, evidence
feeling
lonesome, in last remaining
running to see singing free
collapsed bitter truth told
miracle house standing blinded
abject shelter dilapidated walls
shake the house foundations
earthquake entrance forbidden
powerful cries tragic threat
precipitate catastrophe
spreading inside house so damaged
menace without destruction within
no longer anything methodical
decay accustomed delusions
recogized evil deeply concealed
people apart corner apart
enclosure within inner
prison barracks in divisions
convicts divided in empty forms
purtiest tied up
plans
drove forays into
matter
memories overdose
distance
distance from present
gone
convicts names clever counting
wide space between buildings
prisoners walk think thoughts hidden
eyes meeting faces thinkining counting
run-down marvelous
after death
premonitions running
out
premonition drove
quiet battles
no record of mind's
smooth change
counting counted and noted
marked glance see number
prison prison prison
convict prisoners ikons
creaking heavy courtyard gate
sign of nature hopeless scheme
unbelievable strange gymnastics
inquisitive eyes out of breath
final Musicians music voice
song memory God-given music
lyrics sing fly mind wailing
God comin' down welling in eyes
House of the Dead
House of Certain Death
Sing a Sad Song
prison at the edge
words from
F. Dostoyevsky
The HOuse of the Dead
Roger M. Williams
Sing A Sad Song The Life of Hank Williams
Albert Cossery
The House of Certain Death
arranged by
david baptiste chirot
