Serious Real - The Anti-Journal 2:2


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>>> 09/01/02

GUARDING LENIN'S TOMB

LOVE'S NOMENKLATURA






In spare moments,
idling Time's engine,
goose-stepping,
guarding Lenin's tomb.

What is here?
Eloquent and chaste
militant mannerism?
Marking time?
Marching into
abysmal night?

Fears and cautions
intermingled:
Tomb/time,
trial/temptation.

What is there?
Left/right?
Might has fallen ...
Hard times, cold times,
night-times, many times?
Over and over again,
guarding Lenin's tomb.

Word/landscape,
Logos/cosmos,
thought exemplified,
map-making.
Feeling is foreign,
willing universal,
passion consolable.

Russia of heart and mind -
unruly, tongue-tied,
brilliant, passionate land.
Resist all formalizing,
temporizing, Westernizing:

Guard Lenin's tomb.




October
Passiones Elementaires
Forecast
Dy(e)ing Words
To Byzantium
Post-Romantique








Adapted from The Book of Little Sparta
Landscape Agency New York - 1993/2002

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