Owen Vince on HARK
Photograph by Simen Johan. Via by Owen Vince As a poet, you are your grandmother; you are browsing the obituaries with a red pen and an address book in your hand. The air is too warm, the heating always on; there are pink plants drooping against the Roman blinds....
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A room with graffitied walls. Inside this room the dogs bark. A room cluttered with porcelain figurines. A room decorated with binary numbers.
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We recognise oscillation to be the natural order of the world.
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