Category Archives: Literature/poetry/spoken word

malthus: whimsey for the sullen men of property

Malthus. The theory that, essentially, the poor should not reproduce as they strain the food supply, which will be outdistanced, inevitably by population growth, leading to that final leg of human misery: famine, starvation and death. Alas, the flesh being … Continue reading

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yeah heavy and a bottle of dread

Is there a fear of the familiar that can cross the line and make us embrace those who hate us, correction, intensely dislike us? To just get fed up of chasing the hem of someone’s garment and to choose a … Continue reading

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let’s crash in a hut

Waiting for that wisdom bomb to appear on the horizon of your life. That one mega detonation that will change and transform yourself. The near death dealing explosion from which the Pheonix will emerge soaring higher until like Icarus its … Continue reading

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dada dum dada not so dum

Unsureness and confusion, in the sphere of Dada opinion, became a positive value, and one that had lethal effect of what could be termed systems of hierarchy and classification. Like Alfred Jarry, dada postulated a “pataphysical” logic of absurdity that … Continue reading

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confusion as intent

Dada. They brought to a sharp focus the dilemma in which making choices between so-called alternatives was a lost cause. Tristan Tzara ( of chess with Lenin fame ) saw opposites as essentially equivalent. Order=disroder. affirmation=negation. The efforts to incite … Continue reading

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breathe free or try

…Les artistes constituent l’âme et L,espace de respiration d’une societé et une societé sans âme est vouée à l’extinction ce qui-vous en conviendrez- est un fort mauvais présage

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smarter than he looks

“failure is not the enemy of success; it is its prerequisite” – N. Scherman

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horaire: Lundi à Mélodie

Contacts Secrets et Horaires de Madame Pickwick… Madame Pickwick entretient d’excellentes relations avec les correspondents à l’étranger, les clavencinistes,les promeneurs solitaires,l’idiot de Dostoievski, les porteurs de chapeau melon, le Five O’Clock Tea, la rapidité d’esprit, le Taj Mahal,le gâteau des … Continue reading

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declaration of inter-dependence

Marcel Marceau as Madame Pickwick’s “chargée d’affaires” at ONU. Finally a porte-parole who speaks a language all the talking heads can easily grasp!

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Mistletoe for Marat

“C’est en faisant un peu les choses qu’on arrive à ne rien faire du tout.​” Jean Cocteau

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