Ilya Krieger (b.1978)
TELEGRAMS AND
ANGER
Foxtrots
Octaves
words
syncopes
syntax
Topsy-turvy
Rag-once
Rag-twice
Rag-tag-tumble
The lines are crossing as drumsticks
Thank you Mr. Lobachevsky
Tune in turn out
Go-go
Black and white
Starry-eyed mammoths of swing
Animal visionaries
Lizard dashes
about
the hands
rushes
throws
the skin after
skin
the
copper s dream
drum
fraction scatters over
It drills as a mosaic
over
the scat
lobsters
and hipsters
Octaves
words
zigzags
clarinet
guffaw
The glasses of glasses are chattering by
tubby
trumpet
The sleep-walking bass on a velvet foot
blocks
ferments in
the heads
(visual demonstration of the
theory of strings)
The intro in selfdom
Blow up baby
Rhythm a mad train to be seized
by
a tail
pushed
to the rails
Lumps of notes are melting inside
Octaves
words
syncopes
syntax
beat
the bottles
throw
the handfuls of keys
of
reality
Oh the elastic coda
I discarded
We ve
floating into the
Borderless night
Soundblind
moon is
Melting us
Watching us
The oily mustard of its light s
Beheading us
Beholding us
30 ejaculate
conceptions
To Eluard and Breton
cedilla
/
c
/
windfield /
devil s
pond / oasis /
Virginia creeper /
train s
whistle /
reading / fan /
springboard
/ lyre bird /
lynx
/ orchid /
past
first
step / spiral /
perpetual
calendar /
a
toast to the
lumberjack /
elopement
in a boat /
earrings /
holy
table / life
belt / public garden /
trap
/
Vercingetorix s head / flea game /
baptism
of the bells /
aurora borealis
You-know-what
I
can connect nothing and nothing. T. S. Eliot
my
dear Oldman
sophisticated
beggar
alphabetize
class
aliens and
cement
plains
nerves
magic murder and the weather
poultry
ideas and statement bodies
zoom
:
alto
is mounting the scaffold
it
is a pity
she
is
a
whore
an
abiotic
alphabet
an
amalgamated summer lawn
an
aliquot alienist
an
amaranthine aureole
reality
bites it s clear
without
gaps
within
doors
black-
stockinged
wireless act
wildscreen
version 2.0
wide-spread
angel s jaws
fading
masculinity
Zummer
time
the
weather is easy
good
morning Buddha
Drugs and Magic Remedies
Handle from a suitcase
Powder from a pain
Death from a wound
Smell from naphthalene
Losses from a drought
Darling from woods
Light from a lamp
Key from a house
Giant from the
birth
Electronically
tested
Go now
Side A
Side B
Side
in C
Both sides now
Shot by both
sides
Beautiful
morning
Twisted clouds
reset
a
perfect day
too
fast to love
Urban blue
yellow taxi
Truly fine
citizen
Little bit me
little bit you
Meet rising Son
Jesus the Cool
on
the main line
Blessed are the
sick
sisters
and brothers
nightingales
and bombers
pioneers
and aphrodisiacs
elastic
bones and butterflies
So far, so good
So what?
I m Levi s man and
Panasonic man
Industrial man
In flood of time
Vacuum head
Intel inside
I fan the breezes
I m boss I eat meat
I drink all the poetry
I take ideas
Barocco
stream rococo stream Rockefeller stream
But my arteries
the doctor told me are still young arteries
I am space, man
The signs maiden.
Introspection
I learnt her by
heart
Fall
Red and sulfur
(It is naked
It is free
faster
faster
faster
faster
faster
)
I kissed
I looked at the
sky, where black on white
Nevermore
I ve overlooked
that I knew and how to be pleased
(
rain & rain & rain)
Not assorting a
road
The day is
standing still in vain
Hardened
Bleached
Untwisted
Landscape
at
half-mast
under
the palpable mouse-colored skies
I recollect
summers autumns
More often
winters
Springs have
allocated a worse place on backyard
Also is for
what
Spirits of
violets are all around
The Myth of Monday
Winter
Vintage
Highly compressed
language system
Parity
Junction
Angular silver
Imprinting
Embodiment
Prefixes
suffixes and inflectional endings
Playfulness of
junctaposed word-clusters
New phrase new
hope
Raging
existence
Story of L.
I refuse to see that black hunter.
I refuse to be a victim.
If I close my eyes my eyes
the
black question will disappear.
I am transiting humans
passing
by. It is free.
Converting.
Magnetizing.
Actualizing.
Dramatizing.
Going mad from
Suffering.
The mirror
in
which H...-H
looked
from below-below
V.
Holan
Pulse-beat
may
explode
the
dusty muteness
The gap goes between your
Tight v-neck and
Mascara fresco and
Palms and
Half-shells
half-isolated soul
An asymmetrical
mystery
rubber
nipples and pants and
Legs are long
Alone
blossom
and facets and tints and
ruby
fingernails and bosom and
tissue-paper s
nothing like your skin
Pine needles
are blinking
At the bottom
of your
oval
eyes
wide open
Story of E.
even
different
play
long
live
blue
hurry
eye-chattering
mean
something
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