Monday, January 11, 2016

Guy Debord


                             Le problème du langage est au centre de toutes
                             les luttes pour l'abolition ou le maintien de
                             l'aliénation présente; inséparable de l'ensemble
                             du terrain de ces luttes. Nous vivons dans le
                             langage comme dans l'air vicié,,.

                              (Internationale Situationniste)


Every sentence is brushed water,

instantly crystal ice,

instantly a cloud of steam,

instantly lasting a thousand years.

Do you notice Villeharduoin noticing Dandulo

metamorphosing into Macchiavelli?

No?

Do you notice Baltazar Gracián,

a Jesuit of all things?

No?

Do you notice Rabelais big-gutted
with fine food and drink?

No?

Do you notice Villon?

No?

Do you notice De Sade not noticing De Sade?

No?

But, my friend, everyone who is anyone
notices Duchamp

and his denial of Duchamp as a mustache of milk.

No? Isn't it so?

This is no postcard from the edge,” reads Debord's postcard
in longhand,

This is the edge that cuts.”


E. A. Costa 11 January, 2016 Granada, Nicaragua