Bolano in Stone
21 Feb
“Godzilla in Mexico”
Listen carefully, my son: bombs were falling
over Mexico City
but no one even noticed.
The air carried poison through
the streets and open windows.
You’d just finished eating and were watching
cartoons on TV.
I was reading in the bedroom next door
when I realized we were going to die.
Despite the dizziness and nausea I dragged myself
to the kitchen and found you on the floor.
We hugged. You asked what was happening
and I didn’t tell you we were on death’s program
but instead that we were going on a journey,
one more, together, and that you shouldn’t be afraid.
When it left, death didn’t even
close our eyes.
What are we? you asked a week or year later,
ants, bees, wrong numbers
in the big rotten soup of chance?
We’re human beings, my son, almost birds,
public heroes and secrets.
Dead in Hawaii – I’m a Cheetah (Imaginary Records; 2012)
20 Feb
Tracklist:
1. Make a Snake Happy
2. Driftwood
3. Change in my Paper Hands
4. Lush Anjealous
5. Sock it to the Roof
6. Bird Bones (feat. Jack White)
7. Iron Teeth & Jungle Gold (feat. Jeffery Lee Pierce)
8. Tired as a Lion’s Tail (feat. Tuff Danger)
9. Jester Fiesta ( feat. Tiny Dagger)
10. I’m a Cheetah
Gottried Benn – Driven to Music
19 Feb
Night Café
824: The Love and Life of Women.
The cello has a quick drink. The flute
belches throughout three beats: his tasty evening snack.
The drum reads on to the end of the thriller.
Green teeth, pimples on his face,
waves to conjunctivitis.
Grease in his hair
talks to open mouth with swollen tonsils,
faith hope and charity round his neck.
Young gointer is sweet on saddle-nose.
He stands her three half pints.
Sycosis buys carnations
to mollify double chin.
B flat minor: sonata op. 35.
A pair of eyes roars out:
Don’t splash the blood of Chopin round the place
for this lot to slouch about in!
Hey, Gigi! Stop!
The door dissolves: a woman.
Desert dried out. Canaanite brown.
Chaste. Full of caves. A scent comes with her. Hardly scent.
It’s only a sweet leaning forward of the air
against my brain.
A paunched obesity waddles after her.
— 1912, translated by Michael Hamburger
Raghunath Manet Quartet & Odwalla @ Ankara Caz Fest
16 Feb
The Raghunath Manet Quartet were incredible. Amazing trajectory of emotions and sounds, like a brilliant afrobeat raga with an Indian-flavored helping of James Brown.
Odwalla were also splendid! I especially adored the fellow in the purplish shadows pouring water and making other musical mischief as the two above dancers contorted, shook, and flexed to a chorus of african drumming and x-phones.
Dream Library
12 Feb
If you were standing in a treehouse and looking into the mansion, you might see a werewolf stealing books from the library.
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