Port of Empathy
Port of Empathy (Part 1) Prose Poetry in Collaboration by
Wolfgang G端nther (Kassel, Germany) and
Cheryl Penn (Durban, South Africa)
PORT OF EMPATHY
1. having plans multiple single shootings quakes whatever as I understood what was going
ON 1 dead & again & thousands summa summarum the finite sein but never zero being aware IsaidIsee repeated 1
& complex echoes mentalizing the overt & the hidden lacking plans
endless dead silence as I tried.
2. An ending the continual silence of the dead‌
my thoughts? a cult hero to the common man for the briefest moment he was Cinderella. Except for the knocking at the door an uninvited storm and suddenly it was the distant future in 24 hour cycles of limited unanimity. The beds unfurl to reveal clones to serve consumers. consumers of dishonor the blue print of every single day. With one possible future.
3. To be on hold... The horizon added some hortative hiccups & cleared off into the time to come. The E-brain. Completely & without judgment. Epicurean resilience. Desire maps. Given how little... Loving care attention at tills & job centers. Hot gospellers - no. Humpey howlers - no. Quizzical disapproval - maybe. Certain understanding - yes. As Paul says: Bear ye one another's burdens...
4.
I WISH we could
END As we began This is first time I flushed out a non-Secret Secret Although accustomed to the same stay here the true-Truth our blood on their hands ships creep-crawling, floating on rag-tag It was minding the minder an abyss keeper. Set sail with the morning tide leaping in a journal without sequence fusion engines but all our answers never gave The Answer YES! Bear ye one another's burdens...
5. A final obsolescence. The human issue. & ad hoc: civilization's Casualty Triage Centers. There must be no Dining Out for Life
at night. Ag, man, don't sock with me. To perceive is to suffer. See Aristotel without hidden 3rds. See between righteousnessc& idiocy the watts for cash. Heita, ubuntu! Let' s smile at our boerewors as daylight keeps us vivid!
6. Happy but envious the last one treading softly on black floors the seer woke her to a notion
of forbidden questions.
we are INSIDE a secret no one will ever know the violation of incarceration how did you justify their perspective? being collected by
THEM
in casualty cloaks? There is no reason to hide
the DNA sniffers
will you remain here? Or come with me to a ship in 1893? Wind turbines? the cure is nuclear power transmitted through telephone lines Debts mostly solvency has its drawbacks
and blood has always trumped water.
7.
Behaving for metadynamic survival. Mirror neurons & (a good bit of) confident oxytocin. Warm & fuzzy... Sit & listen: Love boosters! To the ship then in 1893: Gandhi in ZA & satyagraha in spite of the fact, that ironing T-shirts is just as illadvised as aluminium foil & the majority of welcome speeches, lacking the very upright nonapeptide & all it's social patterning...
8. Dreaming during welcome screeches: to maps in the clouds cars overturning dreams of unreal bridges are breaking the sleeping lie till the last one.
such a common story Fragile Handle with care that’s what the box says
but he broke in lock chastisement hardly speaking at all (a moldering concourse).
you think I’m crazy it’s going round over and over in my head take me with you must stay the rough course if I’m not back in two hours go back to the city and let sleeping dogs lie. Dankon & ĝis la!
9. Brain box. Premature cerebration processing bias, angst, demolition & their opposites... Decomposed the thought food concourse. Anxiousest copophobia
& hypnosis (without trance) energy follows plain attention.
As I outrightly said: "No longer all-day sesh! Sorry, if I insist, but indeed I need to know, whether my mail arrived safely..." No sleep gaps (& no sleeping sheep). Last wish money.
So on be up & motherless belongings. Gearing up for bothering with the selfless...
10. I got it (eventually) the mail sign here NO! its on a 30 minute
wait -
(brainboxes) seriously, have you ever jumped out a plane? Look deep into the red it glows what do you think? PERFECT entwine ornaments scatter but the interruption was timeless from the street its nice to see you too
was it always never over?
11.
Stitchlessly scared & innerly trembling along the periosteum of calf & shin bone as the facade lift heads down the high rise... Feeling the other from up here. Obliged to serve & not to rule. Below on Try Street a few Police Empathy Vans. Yes, the compassionate officer is less likely to engage in crime...
12.
We could be something but when police lights whined I thought of you somehow.
Late night? no - yoga class on lockdown. that looks old and its still ticking death before impact stuck at 4.
A NEW APP! live where ever you are. GET ONE! YOU NEED ONE!
aaaahhhh (a universal problem) The 4th highest IQ BUT no EQ
pto there’s a human calculator over the page
the compass was set due north (he thought) but the endless ground
with ticking stopwatches caused helicopters to spiral overhead.
13.
Argument Per Practice. APP – APPER – APPEST. Nowhere near not yet. The indispensibly unalienable framework of use & fuse, risks & rewards, of living labs & their resilience. The interface of pareidolia & epeolatry, of soft staycation & exogenic limerance, as I began to try raising beans right on the back seat of my Oldsmobile. No suffering in silence. A lot of paid time off. One of the things I do detest is going for a shopping quest... Yes: Argument Per Practice. APP – APPER – APPEST.
14.
on the ground
an hour before school started first optical test of long division
hours upon hours no break in falling
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focus down a rabbit hole you lost your cards on the seat of your Oldsmobile amidst the rising Beens. Hail-‐Ho -‐ its of to OZ we go
The Wonderful Land of Odd a skeptical port of empathy.
Book made for An Encyclopedia of Everything -‐ The Expanded Version. Handmade edition of 1 book and 6 chapbooks, 3 hole pamphlet stitch binding, 32 pages, 2 envelope pages holding photos. Correspondence for this aleatory prose poetry collaboration with Wolfgang Günther began on 30/4/2015 and ended 30/5/2015. Title and first verse supplied by Wolgang. http://an-encyclopedia-ofeverything.blogspot.com