1. |
How Do I Listen
01:47
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how do i listen
how
do i
listen to others?
as if everyone were my master
speaking to me
his
cherished
last
words
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2. |
The Short Night
03:46
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the short night
on the hairy caterpillar
beads of dew
the short night
patrolmen
washing in the river
the short night
bubbles of crab froth
among the river reeds
the short night
a broom thrown away
on the beach
the short night
the amstel river has sunk 2 feet
the short night
on the outskirts of town
a small shop opening
the short night
broken, in the shallows,
a crescent moon
the short night
the peony
has opened
the short night
waves beating
in an abandoned fire
the short night
near the pillow
a screen turning silver
the short night
shallow footprints
on the beach at yui
evening wind
laps the herons legs
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3. |
Feed My Cat
02:27
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i will need
someone to feed my cat
when i leave this world.
though my cat is not ordinary
she only has three paws
fire, air
water
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4. |
For No Reason
00:39
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And
For no reason
I start skipping like a child.
And
For no reason
I turn into a leaf
That is carried so high
I kiss the Sun's mouth
And dissolve.
And
For no reason
A thousand birds
Choose my head for a conference table,
Start passing their
Cups of wine
And their wild songbooks all around.
And
For every reason in existence
I begin to eternally,
To eternally laugh and love!
When I turn into a leaf
And start dancing,
I run to kiss our beautiful Friend
And I dissolve in the Truth
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5. |
Rambling Roses
05:22
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6. |
How Do I Listen #2
01:37
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how do i listen
how
do i
listen to others?
as if everyone were my master
speaking to me
his
cherished
last
words
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7. |
Deadline For Astronauts
04:59
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8. |
Language of Dreams
03:52
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what language are dreams in?
what language is silence?
what do voices sound like?
is a sigh or a gasp or a wail the same in all books, all languages?
which page is this?
have i read this already?
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9. |
The Hateful Box (text)
00:45
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would it be better to be:
idiotic or spasmotic
hysteric or choleric
scattered or slovenly
misshapen or unfortunate
unhealthy or flatulent
clumsy or ill-at-ease
putrid or pock-marked
obese or dry-skinned
unnoticed or bleached
unimportant or withered
hairy-faced or inconsequent
sun-burned or invisible
nauseous or truculent
thick-ankled or scaley
dissipated or diseased
disjointed or mealy-mouthed
ordinary or desperate
pestulent or gargantuan
hard pressed or obnoxious
insidious or red-necked
colorless or tepid ?
how can paradise exist between the four walls you have placed me in?
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10. |
The Hateful Box
04:25
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would it be better to be:
idiotic or spasmotic
hysteric or choleric
scattered or slovenly
misshapen or unfortunate
unhealthy or flatulent
clumsy or ill-at-ease
putrid or pock-marked
obese or dry-skinned
unnoticed or bleached
unimportant or withered
hairy-faced or inconsequent
sun-burned or invisible
nauseous or truculent
thick-ankled or scaley
dissipated or diseased
disjointed or mealy-mouthed
ordinary or desperate
pestulent or gargantuan
hard pressed or obnoxious
insidious or red-necked
colorless or tepid ?
how can paradise exist between the four walls you have placed me in?
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11. |
Refracting Objects
04:17
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in an inhabited room there are refracting objects only half noticed: varnished wood, more or less polished brass,
sliver and ivory, and beyond these a thousand conveyers of light and shadow so mild that one scarcely thinks of them
as that, the tops of picture-frames, the edges of pencils or ash-trays, of crystal or china ornaments; the totality of this
refraction -appealing to equally subtle reflexes of the vision as well as to those associational
fragments in the subconscious that we seem to hang on to, as a glass-fitter keeps the irregularly shaped pieces that may
do some time- this fact might acoount for what rosemary afterward mysically described as ‘realizing’ that there was some one
in the room, before she could determine it. but when she did realize it she turned swift in a sort of ballet step and saw that a dead
man was stretched upon her bed.
‘tender is the night’ 1934
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