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Kamarck, Edward (ed.) / Arts in society: the arts of activism
(1969)
Knott, Bill
Part VII: Poems of vision and action: invitation to Brasilia, p. 428
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Bill Knott (1940-1966) has described himself as "a virgin and a suicide," but he continues miraculously to write and read his poems to amazed audiences. As Saint Geraud, he authored CORPSE AND BEANS: THE NAOMI POEMS (Follett: Big Table), which according to John Logan, "give asylum to the orphan in each of us." TWO POEMS BY BILL KNOTT (1940-1966): INVITATION TO BRASILIA for Vivien Leone Follow me we will die in semen shores We will float upon the tremor caused by an underground kiss The sidelong world With fortune-wheel sister asleep at the hurricane of fawns Destination: your eyelash propellors If you will just open your house-of-mirrors Inside the echo-chamber and come You may come my magic wallpaper ride With our nakedness still clustered on branches Of the lost and foundry Brush the closets from your lips 428 Empty your pores into mine I am the only one who can say: "I have never been in anyone's dreams" And I alone have escaped to tell thee: nothing A thousand babies were just born They all got the same shape birthmark It looks like your silence when you speak babeloins To the knifemare plasme city Ah Brasilia same distance below The equator as cunt below the waist Follow me How old are you Mach-sex 1000 Where the nevers run into the no The clock is extemporizing Past heaps of scrap-love You shall inherit your children When my nape-hairs speak to Big Chief Cheekbone-Stroke-Heliostrophes Look Rodin's Thinker drinks from your seeing-eye blouse Rock 'n' roll cave-paintings on the walls of your womb Even suicides, the pulse of time, find a Calm At the eye of the orgasm Follow me Lean over the night's instrument-panel Press the right star we'll be there
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