The Magnificent Melting Object

6.3.02

Ave Caesar (1935)

No bitterness: our ancestors did it.
They were only ignorant and hopeful, they wanted freedom but wealth too.
Their children will learn to hope for a Caesar.
Or rather--for we are not aquiline Romans but soft mixed colonists--
Some kindly Sicilian tyrant who'll keep
Poverty and Carthage off until the Romans arrive,
We are easy to manage, a gregarious people,
Full of sentiment, clever at mechanics, and we love our luxuries.
-Robinson Jeffers



Overheard Through the Walls of the Invisible City

. . .telling those who swarm around him his desire
is that an appendage from each of them
fill, invade each of his orifices,--

repeating, chanting
Oh yeah Oh yeah Oh yeah Oh yeah Oh yeah

until, as if in darkness he craved the sun, at last he reached
consummation.

Until telling those who swarm around him begins again

(we are the wheel to which we are bound).
-Frank Bidart

JP was raving about The Man Who Envied Women by Yvonne Rainer, which he saw Monday night via Four Wall Cinema. I missed it and am appropriately contrite. Of course, I was under the impression that we had practice...

posted by Brad Larcen 3/06/2002 [edit]