Thursday, December 22, 2011

Kursi, Spit...




"They left the corpses behind for the raven, never was there greater slaughter in this island."
from The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle



It was long after Chmelnizkij wrote The Babblers
that a lone Kursi stood being photographed
on a windy Winter's day, and just a short time
before the moment when Antonin Artaud
would say (upon meeting Adolf Hitler in a bar in Berlin):

Les Parisiens ont besoin de gaz.


"Later, I'll write a curse on France in 1939,
and beckon this man to invade.." thought
Artaud.

thought ~ our toe:


Two madmen go into a bar,
one is Napoleon, the other, the Tsar,

Napoleon:
Did you know Don Rickles (The Lithuanian)
served during World War II
on the USS Cyrene as a first class seaman?

the Tsar:
Do you think he knew Aristippus?
The fool forgets the semen in ice...

Kursi
Spit


Napoleon:
How about that battle at Vilnius?

the Tsar:
How about that? [He smiles..]

Napoleon:
Did you know Jean-Paul Marat
published an essay on curing
a friend of the gleets?

the Tsar: The Prussian?

Kursi
Spit

Napoleon:
It was on an icy morning, 18 Frimaire XXI,
outside Vilnius's deep vaulted gate that Victor Dupuy~

the Tsar:
The P? Dupe oui?

Kursi
Spit


Naked men
standing in the snow.
They had all once been semen,
and now, they were~


cold.


our toe ~ thought...