ON THE POSSIBILITY OF A DEFINITIVE UNDERSTANDING OF PREVAILING

SENTIMENTS IN ANTIPODAL SOCIETY FROM THE YEAR 1990 UP UNTIL

THE PRESENT

Fecund as, i'm under and over

whelmed at the same time by heaps

of stuff — australians, sea

food — cause as you'd know i've

got a wide variety of interests [art

etc] n there's soooo much choices out

there           , so i dunno what to

focus on maybe "just love" tho i 

do reckon heaps of ppl my age feel

like this + the internet + i'm wor-

ried things are gonna change [

mining boom + china] i hope books

touching etc will save me, us.

DELECTABLE






I know you think you're
                                            you


well
        I've been thinking
                                            you're me

                                                                         (embarrassingly)

It happens when I put things in my mouth or

when a sun shines through

Some Trees

or when

I'm

                                                                                                                      we're                                 

re-created

by non-   j

flesh

                                                                                                                                                                  ; it's simple                      

it happens with a text message or a birthday card and 

                                                                                                              I                              

"I" as we say

tends to implode

replaced by

                                                                                                              you           

      

But you're not an ego

                                                                                                                                                           you're an object

like a cat

inside a bottle of delectable pinot noir

that's totally

                                                                                               lost the plot

Because there's so much pressure when you're a bottle of delectable pinot noir.

TITLED






Henry Miller and Ai Weiwei are walking down the street in Kreuzberg when they come across a lady masturbating in an alleyway. Ai drops his vase in surprise and takes a photo on his iPhone, while Henry's scribbling frantically. Later, eating kebabs on the train, Ai asks Henry what he wrote; "nothing, I couldn't get the fucking pen to work." Ai shows him the photo—a close-up of the lady's dark, magnificent knee.

UNTITLED






We went to see them recently. They weren't there, but we waited. When they arrived we weren't angry and we drank coffee. We talked of da Vinci. Later we parted and they were sorry to see us leave but we weren't because we had gotten tired of their conversation and had wanted to leave long, long before. We have not seen them since. Neither of us. But we hear they have children. Occasionally we consider going back there, when we have exhausted conversation between ourselves. But we fear that they will not be there, that we will have to wait once more, there outside their door where the streets are rough and the wind blows cold off the ocean. Such an empty ocean. No we will not see them again, the costs are too high. It is not that we dislike them. In fact we wish them well. We wish that they and their children are well.

ANTI-DADA






We are anti-dada.

We think dada is a joke

Pointless.

We comprehend its nihilism, and reject it

As one rejects a sea-lion.

We would never want to be dada

And we could be if we wanted to be.
Our eight-year-old son could do anything dada did.

We liken dada to unsuccessful revolts

In colonies

By women.

Dada stinks like the French.

Dada caused the war.

Tristan Tzara, founder of dada, was ugly

And a paedophile.

Surrealism was better than dada.

Those among our friends who now claim to be inspired by dada are small and impotent
and we have found that the best work of dada,
the _____________,
is shit.

INTERSUBJECTIVITY

I 
try 
win 
offer 
treat 
cut 
tell 
believe 
clean 
improve 
choose 
teach 
work 
meet 
change 
find 
give 
pay 
promise 
hurt 
touch 
press 
finish 
hide 
sell 
sing 
throw 
visit 
hear 
help 
end 
repeat
wash 
write 
remember 
read 
forget 
know 
show 
suggest 
mock 
drive 
hate 
study 
close 
jump 
call 
open 
recognise 
destroy 
leave 
understand 
return 
take 
do 
pull 
use 
lose 
hold 
begin 
you