THE HYPNOTIST

By AKT

Wed, 07 Nov 2012
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I am composing a soundtrack to your latest gif.
The gif is two alternating images.
The soundtrack is three hours long
and exists only in my head
because I have no way of playing it
and I don’t know musical notation
and besides I have forgotten it already anyway
because I didn’t note it down.

Look around you:
I am there you know.
I am on your walls, watching you sleep.
I am on your duvet, surfing on the rise and fall of yr breaths.
I am in your laptop, memorising yr search history.
You really need to stop looking at some of the things you look at.

When you wake up, you will think of me
and I will have something to say:

“Today, you will go for a walk somewhere
and at some point you will feel
like everything is not okay,

but everything is really okay.”

Certificate U
Poem
Love

Comments

Submitted by Sooz006 on
Struggled with the text talk, but other than that this is good, some great ideas. Nice one.

 

Submitted by AKT on
You are not the first person to be uncomfortable with my use of "text talk." I find it a curious point/criticism, because I honestly don't see why people have a problem with it. For me this sort of thing is just a natural step in the evolution of everyday language - we don't write in the same way we did a few or even a couple of hundred years ago because the language we use on a regular basis has changed, so why would we? I find it odd that there is this aversion to people using modern language in modern poetry. Maybe it's because of the fact the the change is so explicitly a technology based one means that it seems less natural to some people? Less valid somehow because of it? I don't know. It's something I find genuinely interesting. "Text talk" is fought against so much, but I just don't see how it is any different from any other change in the way we use language.

 

Submitted by AKT on
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