this scratching (duo - thurston moore & tom surgal @ the stone 11/19/05)
1. this scratching like facial hair against her skin a cat's tongue along the borders of a hand etched in shadows the legs & feet of tortured machines relaxed momentarily ice clawing the taste buds polka dots on pavement ground-doors misled by idea of spires wired into se(a)cre(a)tion jiggled passages of what spiraled & gizzarded toward a lifespan a spilifing of radar redux the plating of organisms e-spanners on a narrow bend garus rags 'til suggestions are moot these are in our own sheds we (s)wear a caucus of orifengers on a special stride dire tribulations seem this endless sprig of eastern europe a thread undone tired astronaut leg-roomed & defying gravity's pull what colors are these that will not surrender to darkness? what tumult that comes from such quiet? red or disorder decide the mooring of a maroon/ed planet a color forgotten in its own absence like newton's leaf round lense is opened & widens gravel unravels & reveals the cut of style you opened to me like a napkin once & i wiped us & whipped the still folded ground awake i ate pencils when time itself was all that remained to lead us & fell like an uprooted trellis onto the earth. 2. exit to street walk down stairs which means walk up one flight relax your tortured machines momentarily loosen your scratchy hands etched into shadow take the door to the right that leads to the ocean i'll be looking for you unless rush hour or snow erase your footsteps unfold yourself like a napkin surrender to the darkness as a tired astronaut would & i'll cut into you the way this steel music cuts a line across my sweaty neck this house is all that is left of our squandering this house & what is left inside it give up the dead they are no longer qualified to speak for us give up the living they have long run out of words fall to the ground like a leaf like the last endless sprig of gravity like polka dots or a severed tongue fall fall fall as the endlessly wired spires vanish into secretion. steve dalachinsky nyc 11/19/05
