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A person’s deep lament
expressed with agony
in petitions
on the corridors of Ministries
competes with the natural wisdom of a cat who, while playing on the street, suddenly stops at a corner she knew way before she was born where there’s food
for a moment you exchange glances bright clouds
the drops of blood
give no specific answer
so many schools...
so many kinds of typography...
so many Olympic Games...
so many Olympic Games...
and the race is still on
always a cat hidden behind the turn ...urn
...urn
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Wedding (Γάμος)
01:20
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You are the reflection on the wave
bright connecting ray
of alabaster newlyweds
Chinese leaves
in a showcase
night-time walk with walkman
divine touch of mother of pearl
insight of gypsy pirates
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What seductive temperature
and in the dense streets
and in lonely rooms
while televisions announce new programs and children buy new notebooks
they smell them with eyes closed
they meet up later at the bus stop
and tell stories of an experience near the sea that’s when people may become couples
and on their faces
a secret smile may blossom
that promises a different sort of touch
in September
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Now, while you wait for your love I’ll bring down the remaining stars and admonish them
for the trouble they caused
in late summer.
I gaze secretly at their silver shine and blow the essence
of jasmine blossom
at your doorbell.
You turn on the hot water frowning, you jump in the shower and the entire planet waits, waits,
in a familiar rhythm,
Eros’ famous rhythm.
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Imitation of a temple of Ionian rhythm in the dimensions of a human body amidst the lush rainy vegetation
of a Bavarian palace garden
the temple is hermetically sealed like the softest part of a psyche sanctuary or Achilles heel
but, besides the inflated surplus, also seductive is the fact
that the external vegetation has found a way to seep through the marble
and to blossom
no one has examined this sanctuary
except possibly as a sort of museum and you, its lonesome
its itinerant monk,
inhabit it
when from some distance
you gaze steadily
at its convergence with the vital space
then you sense there is no inorganic matter even this surplus
frozen in this icy lake
continues exuberantly to praise immortality while a child on a scooter
slides on the ice
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Slender marble Muses
bolster a roof
while black and white floor tiles mirror the speed of clouds
and the density of light
that permeates them blindingly configurations of light masses and cracks in the celestial blue on a wet mirror
in a cold atmosphere
with a warm red hat
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Phaethon (Φαέθων)
04:55
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Henna (Χένα)
03:28
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While the room temperature is stable
my temperature goes in and out of the rooms I tried ash and pomegranate color
and even though these coexist
in my theoretical thermometer
I prefer the pomegranate temperature
which may not be quite reliable
but its smile
is the point of departure of roles
that lead upwards
and this is how gardens are actualized
in the afternoon
the afternoon
the noise of machines in the boulevard
and the light projectors of advertisements
in the afternoon?
at night
they will certainly light up
in that feline part of her mind
right when she tends to it
with henna
they’ll slip through the skylight
and hang themselves
over the glass of her sink
the skylight will never become hers
but the wash basin glass was hers always yet for that reason she does not know it
hello Do...
hello Do...
rom Channel 4 I say hello ...talk later
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A little bottle of clay
has a label that describes
perfumes from plants of Greece
Rosalia
you open it and smell
a scent of fine soap
that simplifies and clarifies
God and the forsaken
it neither separates nor binds them together it is the perfume of a primal biological convergence
you dip your finger
and then caress the part of the body
you love most
a biochemical method
for the isolation of essences
inside bodily cells
or whole organisms
Rosalia overflows
with Rosalia
you isolate the essence of life
for a short while...
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This is a chair – it is a window ... a blackboard
... a student ... it is a map ... a female student
... teacher ... male student ... female student
... chalk... notebook ... blackboard ... pen ...
book ... lamp ... table? yes, table... blackboard? yes, blackboard ... map? yes, map ... notebook? yes, notebook... blackboard? yes, blackboard ... student? yes, student ... pen? no, not pen ... map? ... no ... notebook? no ... student? no ... what is he? a student ... what does a student do? he reads ... how does he read? the student reads quickly ... Peace Friendship Moscow ...
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Immortal (Αθάνατος)
02:33
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I want to describe a space,
for a moment I thought of calling it a retreat
it certainly isn’t a cemetery
it is a space of successive ridges
of wild mountaintops
that every so often favor a stone plateau
and something immortal
a surprise provoked by a high voltage tower but of infinitesimal duration
because the landscape has assimilative sweeping power
perhaps the power of the desert
the lack of breath
so, perhaps as a reaction to this space,
people named
this plant “Immortal”
for what is immortal is slender
and is not swept by natural violence
a plant whose tiny flowers
are aesthetic acrobats on hard seed ornaments so it welcomes the night with indifference
the night there falls suddenly
without sunset
the day too
the only sound is an echo
of the occasional herd that strays
because of some attraction... anyway...
but the herdsman makes a sign
and calls it back
and the space returns to what it was,
and I who know this
know it only as a predatory bird
but I too fly over it swiftly
because, what am I doing here
where even if I cry
my voice will not be heard?
except that I know – how? from whom? –
that only its echo will be heard
after my passage through.
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Lena Platonos Greece
Pianist, composer, and vocalist Lena Platonos is a pioneer of the Greek electronic music scene, with over a dozen albums dating back to the early '80s. She was responsible for some of the first Greek pop recordings to primarily utilize synthesizers, and her otherworldly songs combined minimalist electronic soundscapes with surrealist lyrics about relationships, dreams and societies of the future. ... more
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