ever INFERNO avenue
a score for voices in call
and response
for "the Troll", "ESP" &
Travis Bickle
drifting Waste
Everywhere in all times appearing to excess
same announcing note appealing
prophecies manifestoes make visions flung
parallel old dances old walks proceeded
diggers of future a source deeper
O profound most obvious
Perplexing riddle constant sense
promise easy birth expensive
work gently exploded marked for removal
why waste ipso unum in to prime awaiting
going in search yet so anxious
Standing knee-deep in so tragic annals
lowest outcast still young to horrors
tried reading Inferno literally under shock
sorting entrails effort to speak
in place of entrails vivid show
build
plinth of labyrinth putting forth feelers
spoke no luxury into ambient
air
nor see so near charmed beholder
held by heel measure test
But I saw this effect
street runs down street manifestations far
no saint walked nowhere wings
no miracle passed for hint to grace
nor poet nor flower its sign of flying
nor sun nor rain taste high or
low
ever Inferno avenue promising diversion
led to emptiness New costly record
see before you die the demonstration
magnificent future last analysis
sheer emptiness whole loneliness
emptier than extinct insistent
waste
emptier than vacuum waste still wider
emptier than mere game
an unbeliever rebuilding
words left column from:
Henry Miller TROPIC OF CANCER
words right column from:
Henry James THE AMERICAN SCENE
arranged by:
david baptiste chirot
