everything is up to you
ODALISQUE HAS BEEN SILENT VERY SILENT.
I HOPE YOU STILL THINK OF HER NOW AND AGAIN. NO. THINK OF HER MORE THAN THAT, PLEASE. THINK OF HER NOW. AND NOW. AND NOW. AGAIN.
I WILL WRITE SOMETHING TO TELL YOU HOW IT IS SINCE SHE WON’T MAKE A SCRAPBOOK PAGE. I WILL TRY TO SAY IT SO YOU WILL UNDERSTAND O YOU OUT-THERE.
coffee house you sit /imagine/ with blank paper and pen
listen music streams from responsive algorithms
listen there are conversations at tables with all chairs empty but one
talk talk about marketing /cause app art jeans/ marketing is a way to talk about money that sounds like sharing or making friends
listen gnat clouds of attention ghosting the nether-now of elsewhere and who
mesmerizing all the fingers on hand-held palm stones, light glass leaves. swift fingers single shuttle a miniature loom weave /bandage veil fate/
or idly scroll as if skimming skin of a dull but distracting lover, heart battery in cellophane sleeve sealed with mildly-toxic adhesive
re pe ti tive /pause/
fresh faces bathed in lightpalm glow as if looking down into unempty hands equals looking up at face of
dawn as if sky is
discrete on/versus/off
look up blank page
here is the future
it is very productive
what do you say
odalisque do you have anything to say
to the future
I don’t have anything to say to the past. The past was no good for an odalisque. Kindness. Gentleness. All anyone needs.
In this place you describe my unbelonging is fantastic.
I don’t know what to say to anybody anywhere. I don’t know what to offer that is worth the time my offering would require for its meaning to become apparent.
Maybe I should be somewhere else right now.
But I am always here
I don’t know what to do.
Something else is not happening. Elsewhere now was home.
I hope you think of me more than now and again. Think of me now. And now. And now. And now. Again…
–The Odalisque
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