nigredo

nigredo boog sing it loud sing it la la la la sing it because i know you can what you dont know what you dont remember i was in your bathroom i heard you singing in the shower you were naked you were in the shower you were not there but i was and your voice left shadows like tattered in drainpipes and in showerheads and i heard you i remember (as in dream) the memory the echo the shadow ofvoice and it went la la la la as in song for the sake ofsonging as in the froth of sheets overturning our bodies as in if Wallace Stevens had been a buddhist he would have been dismissed for heresy as in excommunication (if buddhists were catholics) the doctrine: not the thing itself, but ideas ofthe thing the notion of ownership the notion of light as an image not metaphorically but literally as in silence as in light as in gravity as in gravity oflight as in magnetic field as in magnetics are silent and dont care about light 67 68NIGREDO as in lead is not magnetic gold is not magnetic in this way is this an argument ifboth are subject to gravity and they are as in the only thing you want to hear is the absence ...