Someone Else
Shilpa Gupta, Arnolfini, 2012
a black cloud
of microphones
i want to fly
obscuration
as a threat
if it could
be innocent
i want to fly
away
THERE
ARE
NO
BORDERS
[the phrase
in tape
wasn’t obscured
but
when i google it now
it’s lost]
shelves of books
cast in metal
i want to fly
a
way
Not a Chrome Effigy of All Our Ideals
this is the way
it always was
bound, controlling
i sat there reading
cover face down
civility mediates
sex, originating
from outside us
the smooth
cold exteriors
were gesticulations
cordoned, that is
violence endowed
“plausible deniability”
unlit windows
and slate grey sky
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Richard Capener's pamphlets are KL7 (Red Ceilings, 2022) and Dance! The Statue Has Fallen! Now His Head is Beneath Our Feet! (Broken Sleep Books, 2021). The Voice Without will be released by Beir Bua Press in October 2022. He edits Hem Press, and is also Reviews Editor for Mercurius Magazine.
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