Casual Omen
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Name the music of certain emperors, “The Complete Argo Sessions”
And to trust it you’ll need a woman’s silence. You can buy that in leather, silk, or conflict diamond, hope is a blind hen’s feathers. Hope is final. It will cost you your effects, especially the feedback, the back- up graphic to suggest the stoics were here and never left the ghetto
I tried to write a letter but the games were too exciting
So-what so-what so-what so-what’s—in a name. No words, no words, no words: completion.
For nothing would enter and nothing would leave this state of per- petual siege. Then came the word Ra and its obscene permutations. Aurora watching her rocketlove explode in the tropical temperament, hot water, flock wind, a confession: it’s not paradise we lost it’s the other dice, the kind in your hand, not the parody of life we call Eden. Them parachutes we call men.
(Mo Better Blues, Bike Scene) [End Page 367]
Harmony Holiday is a poet, dancer, and sound artist living in New York. She co-runs a production house called Etat de Siege Productions (ESP) whose work encompasses text, music, the moving image, dance, design, architecture, and curatorial platforms.
