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Dennis Saleh: Two Poems
FEAR OF WHITES
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The white sheet of paper into the printer White disappears between and so his clouds turn blue 2. Descriptions of white but note its tell-tale It is usually seen White's license plate 3. Sleep of course is white Milk glass figurines the vacant pale landscape And the Sandman 4. Salt is from statues condensation Chalk is the pollen |
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enter White's exile The journey to nothing Expatriate White 8. The future At altitudes of inner space Vomit Commit a crime and 9. White caps up the coast the smoke of an criminal 10. Snow on the lobes but is pulled down The white lip of a moon Tabula rasa |
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Here is a shaker The moments white grains Throw the past away 6. White's shadow is transparent no sun Who see it |
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The magnetic compass Idiot savant This is the North Pole White at the end 12. The day after Halloween Its paper charms tatter This the whitest day the day the year |
TZARA: BLANC MANIFESTO
Tristan at his most outrageous
proposes a Church of the Idiot Savant
What have all religions in common
he demands White
This is what art is really about
he says Challenge
White is the color of silence
When poets run out of things to say
white has only begun
to be white
He says imagine a chameleon
and a hundred shades of white
In a hundred years he says white
will be the only art left
The future of the air is white
The future of light is white
Nothing of the centuries only white
according to dear Tristan
Thus the night is gauche
So sleep is artless
And if the clouds dim the moon
they are unartistic