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Corpus in words designs coloured structures tones movements all the multifarious ways of being savvy earnest of show-looking in earnest of believing in earnestness of wanting to be thought of in earnest by being read thumbed scrutinised listened to in silence who shores up whose image « when the feeling comes, I feel the need to go » … Sekoto said looking into the guest with devouring Picasso eyes and yet his image bothered him his need to be felt useful needed to be thought of as in the know no background to lay the usual foundation Ecole des Beaux Arts Atelier in the Rue des Augustins no one to lean on to only the self-peddled jazz piano a lolling pittance and the loud lingering death at the Maison des Artistes canvasses stached away at some brocanteur’s junkyard it matters to leave behind a corpus a bibliography firsthand original right from the tréfonds long before death the diurnal deaths felled by dizzy spells some ex-librarian’s list of secondary source pieces articles talks opening-day speeches conferences radio-interviews tv declarations chapters-in-books edited revised --editions reviews biblios tertiary lists of critiques unsigned TLS reviews communications what the editor said in memoirs of his peers not to have said enough is not enough there will be those who will attribute what others have said to us we have made provision for that we told so and so what the others have taken from us with a word carefully placed in the leeward of the ear while sitting in the din of the rear seat words garbled gobbled by the exhaust beat to have left behind a load heavy with prizes pounds royalties titles by the dozens even scores definitive recapitulative editions in velours computerised translations transvesti(t)es through years of solitude sans sexe sans joie sans care may the publisher be forever loading to jettison the heavier the corpus the longer/longslower the worm rot in the mud catacombs of staring accusing skulls From the privately-pub. coll. (rev. 2016) : longhand notes (a binding of poems), Paris : 1999, 115p. © T.Wignesan - Paris Fresnes, November 6, 1994

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