Monday, October 17, 2011

WASTED EXPLANATIONS

Ran out of rocks to throw.  The water is settling.  The circles are getting smaller.  The circles are fading and disbanding no more performances.  Absent depths there for too long still prolonging madness and chewing on the inside of jaws chewing on things until they bore holes through profiles never knowing which one was preferred.  The circles are getting smaller.  The circles are fading and disbanding no more performances.  Absent depths there for too long still prolonging madness.  Absent depths absent until the bottom falls out.  It fell out no point picking it up where they left off others continue on where to pick up from?  It fell out no point picking it up where they left off others continue on where to pick up from here or there or anywhere absent depths absent until the bottom falls out falling out they had a falling out from the story above theirs while the fires burned on every story in the building it had been building up to this thickening of the plot the corner plot the corner office the corner where the building went up the corner where the building was going up in smoke until the water the water for drowning out the flames and the dirtying of the day until the water is settling the circles are getting smaller the circles are fading and disbanding no more performances.  Absent depths there for too long still prolonging madness and chewing on the inside of jaws chewing on things until they bore holes through profiles never knowing which one was preferred.  The circles are getting smaller.  The circles are fading and disbanding no more performances.  Absent depths there for too long still prolonging madness.  Absent depths absent until the bottom falls out.  It fell out no point picking it up where they left off others continue on where to pick up from?  It fell out no point picking it up where they left off others continue on where to pick up from here or there or anywhere absent depths absent until the bottom falls out falling out they had a falling out from the story above theirs while the fires burned on every story in the building it had been building up to this falling out they had a falling out before this falling out feeling out of it for dropping out dropping the subject subjecting themselves to subjects of absent depths until the bottom falls out each of them belted dropping the subject nonetheless subjects falling out fallen into this falling out for a dropping out subjecting themselves to every breath taking no more leaps while they subjected themselves to every breath until the water the water for drowning out the flames and the dirtying of the day until the water is settling the circles are getting smaller the circles are fading and disbanding no more performances no more performances the run is done.


Absent depths there for too long still prolonging madness and chewing on the inside of jaws chewing on things until they bore holes through profiles never knowing which one which window they opened windows windows opening onto a field windows opening onto a playground windows opening onto a classroom windows opening onto a voice never called on windows opening onto a roster with a missing name windows opening onto conversations explanations that fall on faces turned towards the screen that grows flatter with every explanation windows opening onto hands that lost the balloon floating off on the wind windows open on color what color was it the balloon floating on the wind floating on the wind through open windows opening windows for the wind against them and through them through the passages their passages for absent depths there for too long still prolonging madness and chewing on the inside of jaws chewing on the shrinking size of his work looking down at the toilet pissing into realizing the sinkhole opening up the absent depths until the bottom falls out as the piss sprays further down feet teetering on the edge teetering teetering.




- Max Stoltenberg

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