AARON PECK

TV GETHSEMANE / PARKING LIFE /
PUBLIC NOTES / COLLATERAL DAMAGE

TV GETHSEMANE

A bombing:
we are, they say, angry
explosive

such speculative caves

I woke up, one morning, the sound
of screams state
entered the alley

In Jerusalem, I said, it’s unknown where
Christ was buried, speculation states
the Mount of Olives

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PARKING LIFE

And a beach—a man cups water—in hands

pours over pavement

And suddenly sun came out and like it was never

theirs, and the word ‘interior’ spoke of some secret

oath and suddenly caught by water—the ocean—

and traffic in the park confusedly rang alongside

it—and the city across it and nowhere were chimes


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PUBLIC NOTES

I find Malraux’s connection between art & death disappointing.
Especially from a man who was
a national minister
of culture*

attempt at French: «le pigeon»

«dans le Metro
un enfant qui crie
& rit—sa belle
maman d’Algeirs» & suddenly
a word comes to me in French, or does there come to me

a thought

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COLLATERAL DAMAGE

That sheen elevator of quickness comes
as we toward
alone a cat

jumps off

a wooden table
an empty room

across the way with twilight
televisions appear in
windows of numerous

holographic blue
look how quickly unknown it pounces
toward an armchair*
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(*So how do we live as more than subjects of ourselves? These moments of timidity seemed glass buildings, but what happens as these moments alter?)

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