Monday, January 18, 2016

Robert Verdon, #15, ‛all history is nothing but a continuous transformation of human nature’1


Van Gogh clouds observed through sunglasses at noon
white pinwheels on sea-blue, recharging memories
something new up there, in here,
awaits the next mode of production

ice browns in the microwave of spring, trickles away through mud, an ice age evaporates and crystal thoughts take you (k)nowhere … circus tents will soon be unfolding here and rising like tumuli, daddy-long-leg spiders hang from every twig and I can see a wink of amber sun

our bayonets defeated them we fired each one from our rifles like a crossbow bolt
no one has made a gun to shoot bricks and build houses

one day, flower-arrangements, small children, and wineglasses will be bulletproof; defensive warfare will trump offensive; making will supersede breaking, to the degree you can make without breaking, and break without making

the clouds spin me out


1Karl Marx, The Poverty of Philosophy, Chapter Two: The Metaphysics of Political Economy, 3. Competition and Monopoly. See https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/poverty-philosophy/ch02c.htm (17.1.2016).

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