Youth.
All calculations set to one side;
The inevitable Descent from Heaven,
A visitation of memories and a seance of rhythms
Invades the house, my head,
And the world of the mind.
A horse leaps forward on suburban turf,
Past planted fields and stretches of woods
Misty with carbonic plague.
A wretched theatrical woman, somewhere in the world,
Sighs after an improbable indulgence.
Desperados lie dreaming of storm, and of wounds and debauch.
Along small streams the little children sit,
Stifling their curses.
Let us turn once more to our studies,
To the noise of insatiable movement
That forms and ferments in the masses.
The inevitable Descent from Heaven,
A visitation of memories and a seance of rhythms
Invades the house, my head,
And the world of the mind.
A horse leaps forward on suburban turf,
Past planted fields and stretches of woods
Misty with carbonic plague.
A wretched theatrical woman, somewhere in the world,
Sighs after an improbable indulgence.
Desperados lie dreaming of storm, and of wounds and debauch.
Along small streams the little children sit,
Stifling their curses.
Let us turn once more to our studies,
To the noise of insatiable movement
That forms and ferments in the masses.
photographs - denis darzacq
lyrics - brendan perry for dead can dance; adapted from arthur rimbaud
4 comments:
photos remind me of a Radiohead video
Yeah, Street Spirit especially, mixed in with some Fake Plastic Trees or Nude. Good call.
exactly :)
great poem/song too, of course. funny, reading it it i'm reminded of some of Lorca's stuff the way he describes the world, like an Egon Schiele painting put to words.
That's a little bit disturbing. Better put to words than come to life, I suppose.
But yeah, I know what you mean... it's something like a charicature of life from someone who isn't a part of it.
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