Monday 7 March 2011

THE LIST AS POEM

Lately, working on my trickyselfportrait project, I have found myself writing lists of things in a very literary way, if that makes sense, and so I realized that I was in fact proposing a new gender: 
The List. 
So far I have two examples of this new gender, one, called THE PRETENCIOUS LIFE OF A YOUNG ARTIST, and two, called I AM, posted just today. The list is perhaps the must "ontologic" shape inside poetry, for it allows to display, it allows to list, as it were, a bunch of things, and relate them in multiple ways. It also has a very informal structure, that can be defined by the list itself when its time arrives. Whatever, just for the record it is clear that when I say that I am proposing a new gender I don't really mean it. The list might be the earliest form of poem, all the way from the gilgamesh, the Hanes Taliesin, or any other taxonomic song. I might elaborate more about this later. I have a funeral to attend now

HEIDEGGER AT THE DISCO [OR: I AM (A LIST)]

I am my Facebook profile
I am my unknown Facebook friends
I am my new Mac book pro
I am my unvisited blogspot
my invented resume
the picture someone took of someone and I happened to see
I am my ripped T-shirts
my self-hair-cut experience
my allergy to pollution
my studied spontaneity
my nipples
my not so good sex life lately
my deodorant, but more my lack of it
my elusiveness
my phone not answered
my deep almost kind of tired voice
I am my confessions in a recorder
I am everybody's dark secrets
I am the smell of someone
I am your conversation about me
I am my paranoia
I am my supposition
I am a tree falling in a forest
I am no witness
I am not witnessed
I am french-kissing my reflection in a mirror
I am your fist in his face
a tongue licking an open eye
one thing
one multiple thing
ones
I am ones
I ones was.
I am (in) memory
I am in books
I am Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, Paris Hilton, Napoleon, Nefertiti, Ann Boleyn, Darwin, An aztec god, Hernan Cortez.
I am a Spanish colonizer
I am any conqueror, including William
I am History
I am Moktezuma's feather hat in a VIenna museum
David Bowie in depression before the wall fell
I am Berlin Germany and after me a city is gonna be named
I am a tyrant, a saint, a cock-sucker
I am the nicest pair of socks
yellow
I am technicolor
technotronic
pump it up
I am a swedish guy saying he is a mexican artist.
I am he is
I is he am
am he is I
He I is am
    m    e i     i           s     a     h
I am Artaud
I am language
I am context
I am text
I am a guy reading what someone wrote about someone
I am a very cool interest in international politics
I am looking at you with a reproval attitude
I am the Prozac I would never take
I am the Prozac I would
I am a cup of tea with garlic
I am breaking in tears while listening to a salsa song
I am a prejudice against Marcel Proust
Im the only one who could ever teach you
Im the son of a preacher man
I am the black plague
I am the big fire of London
I am the big quake of Mex city
I am Turner painting it and Sickert playing
I am a dead crowd
I am 500 self-portraits and a book round them
I am a present for christmas
I am an army of broken toys
wikipedia
egypt
google
I tube
I am the coiner of the word flow
I pay my rent but avoid taxes
I am deleuze saying "there is desire and the social, nothing more"
I am desire and the social
I am nothing more
I am The Sire
I am hierarchy
I am a horse in Uruguay
and a group of girls talking
I am prostatic cancer
I hate fat people
I am against discrimination
I once went to a demonstration
I am a dropper
I am a quitter
I am a hand sweater
I am a romantic movie about necrofilia
Im into sarcasm
Im into irony
Im old fashioned
I am my sexy underwear, but specially someone elses
I am a Colombian girl talking about sentimental freedom
I am ambiguos
I am only good for being young
Im dancing with myself
Im a bitch, Im a lover
Im a slave for you
Im an aligator
Im a mama papa coming for you
When I think about you I touch myself
Im only happy when it rains
Im only happy when its complicated
I am the pop song history
I am Elvis, and I died in the toilet
I am proud of you
I am greek mythology, but not Oedipus
I am a jam
a jar
a jack
I am Jack
Jack Maldonado
famous Desperado
I hit and run
I through the first stone
I hit other cheeks even harder
Im a monster
I feel guilty
I feel stacy
I feel your breath on my shoulder
I feel, more than I am
I am
I not am
I am
I not am
I am
I not am
I have a stroboscopic existence
I have an answer for Hamlet
I am Heidegger
Ich bin Suzanne Linke
I am Jerome Bel
I am Michael Jackson in his black or white video
I am Prince in his Controversy song
I am Mtv
I am my parents and the TV commercials
I am a tv commercial
I forgot what my father said, I forgot what he said
I forgot what my mother said, as we laid on your bed
I question Identity without questioning the questioning, because it’s cool to do it
Your elbow is hurting me, could you please move it?
I am sitting in a bench in a park eating a sandwich
Some people are born for the gossip, and some people are born four fingered
I am a four-finger gossip
I am french-kissing my reflection in a mirror
I am the frame of representation