tam tam
tam TAM, imperceptible motion
liquid is aerophagic, is
DRIFTING
the Mayor of the Island is whistling a silly tune
and the drums turn into this rythm of light falling stones,
the inside lake turns into a sea and the surrounding sea into a whisper
it’s water going up, drops designing liquid ladders,
a mosaic of beats, incompressible cobblestones drifting darkly
the head of the Mayor of the Island is whistling a tune
his head OFF his shoulders
headed toward his shoulders by his fellow citizens of the Island who got him elected, OH yes they carry the Mayor’s head on their shoulders to put it on his
drifting shoulder ceremony
tam TAM, tam tam !
the sounds of cymbals, light drums and emptied sea-spider shells, the old men and women are singing, while all young and younger remain — silent, — in that silence they hold the force
which is the path to silence to the path to the
yellow flowers stringing the road opened, while the wind
TAM, TAM
melodizes these steps into the path ambiguous
the Citizens of the Island, they walk, they spiral and shudder, from the inland sea to the outland whisper, they invent new words while carrying the Mayor’s head, this lone head over populated shoulders, whistling always, and always wilder as the horde enters the whisper
This is called the path of sacred deflection, of holy diversion,
TAM
TAM tam !
it begins never, ends always,
because the Mayor’s head
will stop to whistle
when it will get on the shoulders of
silence
and thus Always, will not be.
THUM, tum tum
you are the reason, why ?
you are the voice, that precedes the whisper, I
the uncoagulate material
the fling in the process
only you, all but for you, can experience : experience
you are the WHISTLER
of that silly tune
of that deflected solitude
of the tenderness unleashed
of so many, many brains
you cannot hope without fear, if you don’t take the road of the path of the Island Impossible, whose song reverbs the so many you see and talk with in bars and train stations and streets,
between NO MORE and NOT YET is,
if you say « not now », forever.
but Always will not be.
So please, reconsider.
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