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Poetic proses - Remil



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S. Freud affirmed that the "ES" (ID) is the most ancient among the areas of the human psyche where the need of the immediate satisfaction of  pleasure generates tension that is lived
as sorrow. The "ES" not having any point of touch with reality does not succeed to get rid of the impulses and so  it gets supported from other figures of the human personality. This collection of  poetic proses is an attempt to give a voice to the "ES" intended as primary instinct through the manifestation of neurosis.



I'd like to thank ideally all the people I  met during a support therapy for reducing the effects of a reluctant shape of agoraphobia. Other information has been taken from books of psychology and biographies. The references to artists
that really existed are also the fruit of the author's imagination. I don't hide the invitation to look at the psychological problem as we look at all the other problems that hit the human being: a psychological problem
can have the same valence of a physical problem and in some cases can overtake it in a worse way even though it is not visible. Behind any face there is an infinite amount of feelings we must respect.
The author.



INSTINCT
( The shout of the ID )


I would like to express my thanks and appreciation to my special friend, Dee, for all the time and patience she willingly spent to correct the english translation of this book.


1) The shade of the night
2) Parking
3) The flavor of champagne
4) Reading in the darkness
5) Lady
6) The hunger of desire
7) Sleeplessness
8) The beautiful day
9) The law of 9th
10) Central post office
11) Behind the eyelids
12) Metropolitan vesper
13) The smile of  jealousy
14) The lost kiss
15) Workshop
16) Him
17) My dear Parents
18 Old wine
19) Love's letter
20) Saturday at the grocery store
21) Saint-Rémy
22) White telephone
23) Smudgy doll
24) The last letter
25) Little green dot
26) Compulsion
27) The glance
28) Duffel bag of silence
29) Symphony n.6 Op. 74
30) Good night
31) Seventh - Thou Shalt Not steal
32) Underground
33) Prayer
34) Where Anne has gone?
35) Mental detector
36) A mother's heart
37) Usher
38) To die again
39) Sunbeam
40) The bridge on the river
41) Magdalene
42) Card woman
43) Need of a thought
44) Waiting
45) The proper place
46) The elevator
47) The noise of silence
48) Introjection
49) Calaf
50) Agora



 THE SHADE OF THE NIGHT
 

 Carrara marble
 cold as ice
 under my little feet.
 Opened skies as clouds
 slashed from lightning.
 The voice of God
 into a thunder
 that wounds your ears.
 The corridor
 immense, long, unending.
 The coldness
 under the feet of a baby
 while the ear splitting rain
 wants to crack the roof.
 My little hands
 tender and white
 as snowflakes
 clench a little cross
 on my chest.
 A blubbering voice moves
 into the wind of my thoughts.
 - Mom! -
 Silence
 My voice calls you again
 crying into desperate torments.
 Still silence that
 is winding me up
 like the dragons of the fables
 you tell me everyday.
 The bedroom
 lighted from lightning
 appears bigger to my eyes.
 The shade of the dragon
 wildly
 on my mother's body
 dances mortally.
 Oh my poor mom
 who is injuring and torturing
 your body?
 I  will come to make you safe.
 Whoever you could be
 dragon or a shade of night
 I  will go through your heart
 with my nails
 and will eat it
 as bread.


 PARKING
 

 Get out!
 I don't want to see you.
 You squash me in a circle
 without any way out.
 You are annoying as the boredom,
 encumbering!
 My feet are prisoners
 from brake and friction
 while I'm attempting to go away
 from this town
 from this world.

 Footprints on the sand.

 Walking on wet deserts
 I find out again
 the ancestral essence of loneliness.

 Mirages!

 An oasis of peace
 among green palms
 and huge waves of canister
 that wrap my body.

 - I saw the parking place first!
 Don't even try to take it,
 I could kill you! -


THE FLAVOR OF CHAMPAGNE
 

 In front of me
 is the glass of leftover champagne
 with the color of your lips
 still traced on it.
 I want to close my eyes
 and listen to the noise
 of my bones
 while my hands crack
 dried branches of trees
 forgotten from my mind.

 Absolute emptiness.

 The flavor of champagne
 sweet and soft
 on my smoothed lips
 that I suck with lust.

 Suddenly
 a cursed spider
 on the other side of the table
 fixates on my face.

 Darned woman!
 You are still in this room.
 Why don't you hide yourself
 behind the mountains of desires
 where my glance
 can't see you anymore?
 But still I see you
 among smokestacks of metropolises
 dark colored as these sticky paws
 of this spider that paralyzes my will.
 My half closed eyes
 succeed to perceive
 the orifice of your words
 where filaments
 never end weaving
 this web in the chasm.

 Immobile,
 breathless
 while the spider of your nightmares
 keeps fixed on my glance.

 I'm not afraid of you.
 Come
 Come
 I will offer you a drink.
 
 
 
 


READING IN THE DARKNESS
 

 15 Minutes
 to choose a cd
 to listen to.
 I don't want to hear any music!

 20 Minutes
 looking for a book.
 Short minutes
 like the gasps of a second
 while as an imbecile
 I keep looking through the library
 I don't feel like reading!

 25 Minutes
 looking for a movie
 worth seeing
 Tarkovskij.
 Bergman
 Fassbinder.
 I really don't want
 to squeeze my brain right now!

 3 Hours and 15 Minutes
 of lost time
 in the labyrinth of time
 next to a memory
 that never did exist.
 Artificial paradises
 to idiots
 and the poor of mind.
 For me
 It is enough
 to open my window
 and give my cheek
 to the hot wind
 of this hot town
 that offends and insults me
 with shivers of love
 that I don't feel anymore.

 The light was extinguished
 my body
 laid on my couch.
 The click of a lighter
 can make more light
 than a sick sun
 that brightens a dying planet
 meaningless
 like the infancy
 of an actual movie.

 I have the skill to read
 the jiggles of my cigarette
 in the darkness.
 I write your name
 keeping my cigarette tight
 between the thumb and index finger
 of my hand.

 In my brain there are
 words of eternal waters
 that give life to all the rivers
 while an endless sea
  gives me back life.
 A thought, maybe a love story
 arises in my room.
 I am close to climax.
 Knowing how to read in the darkness
 is a divine gift.
 


LADY
 

Which genius sculptured
your mind?
Overtaking the history of men
by centuries
riding sidereal spaces
while Duncan
is still in bed wailing.

How many hands
attempt to get cleaned
everyday and night
since the beginning of time
in the orgy of power?
He who washed his hands
decreeing the death of God
and men
lost his peace forever
and you
earthly power
everywhere you kill
the freedom
and the respect of men
never will shut down
the screaming hiss of wind
when the wind hisses
dreadfully
in the nights of thunderstorms
dragging into snow
the scattered molecules
of your soul.

Lady,
lady,
you may wash your hands
until you want.
Now
tomorrow
the day after tomorrow.
Begotten by a perfect mind
you might wash your hands
till the end of time:
the shout of Duncan
never will let you go.
 
 


THE HUNGER OF DESIRE

Spaghetti and steak.
Little white tablecloth
like snowcapped Dolomite's.

I do need opened skies
to roll my body
and feel emotions
of smooth and sensual shivers.

Mineral water
an empty glass
and next to me
a little apple.

I perceive the presence
of tropical plants
and listen at obsessive falling rain
among green foliage
that shakes itself
to the frantic rhythm
of my sweet pipedreams

I'm not hungry
and I never am.

A cramp destroys me,
while a tepid
winter sunbeam
reminds me
of the celestial rainbows
that reflect smiles
never gotten.
 
 


SLEEPLESSNESS

Empty frames left
with colors already poured
onto languished canvas
in the temporal space
of my thoughts.

Brass handles
burnished from sighs
close the wooden doors
that barely opened
to subterranean apertures
of penumbra.

On the gilded lake
of your skin
immense wings of gulls
move the endless water of the sea
where I dip rubbish of thoughts
that oppress my sleep

In the night
to sleep
I must fill my mind
with emptiness
and forget everything

I must cancel from my memory
the insult of your recall
and my nameplate
for not having a name anymore.
 


 THE BEAUTIFUL DAY

 Surprised.
 drowsy.
 You were looking at the sky.
 You loved its light,
 its promise.
 It was a new day
 and you wanted to flee.
 It was your problem,
 your anguish.
 The rest of the world
 was so far away
 like the memory
 of the first lost love.

 What a wonder!
 Your voice on the phone
 with the day barely born.
 Let's go towards the light
 you said,
 the light is next to the hill.
 A speaker on the radio announced
 the discovery of a poet's corpse
 next to Rome martyrized
 from jackasses of the outskirts
 and probably
 the beginning of a new war.
 I kept thinking of my Gitanes
 that I had forgotten in my car.
 I didn't smoke french cigarettes
 and must get rid of them.

 My room seemed to wrap my throat up
 and my house a bellows
 that converged on my conscience.
 I could not resist
 with my heart that wanted
 to go out of my chest.
 Took my jeans and a sweater
 and went outside half naked
 as a crazy man in the fog.

 When you arrived
 you smiled at me,
 I smiled at you too
 then, running, we left.
 


THE LAW OF THE 9TH
 

 One cry in the Tosca
 shots from a cannon
 and that's all!
 I'm sorry, Mahler
 you didn't know
 how to wait
 or maybe were distracted
 when the art was alive.
 Anyway, your symphonies
 touch my heart
 and sharply torture
 my mind.
 I feel on my skin
 the sound of your distress
 while my pores get enlarged
 when releasing the livid tensions
 that rust and break up
 the essence of my lymph.
 Why didn't you stop at eight?
 Waiting is always like dying
 when your mind yawns
 in the silence
 of the failed creation.
 Beethoven, Bruckner,
 Shubert, Dvorack:
 names that hammer
 your brain.
 Not one of them
 could count more.
 Numbers that seem
 controlling the destiny of men
 when the thought of death
 sits down next to you
 and you can feel its breath.
 It has been hard to bear
 the voice of  fear
 that turned your face white
 and your pen dropped
 on the pentagram
 of the ninth symphony:
 dawn of a tenth day
 left unaccomplished.
 
 


 CENTRAL POST OFFICE

  Sinusoidal waves of heat
 on the forehead,
 part of the face
 and around the neck.

 The path to reach
 the destination
 is far away
 always so far away.

 One boa serpent,
 a chain
 keeps us tied
 as slaves

 Too many trees ahead
 we never arrive.

 Among lianas
 I fly over coconuts
 that look so strange
 seen from above.
 The light blue reflex of a lake
 rains from the sky
 like a celestial blessing
 and I  in deep
 with my fists closed
letting the water flow
over my body
so sensitive
to cold and heat
to the breath of wind
to caresses of love.

 Without any reason
 in a central post office
 an aged man
 cracks violently
 the glass of a closed counter
 light blue colored
 as the reflex of a lake.

 Then he drops on the floor
 shouting words
 of freedom and vengeance
 without any sense.
 


BEHIND THE EYELIDS
 

The chinks of the shutter
 like thousands of lips on fire.
 The light calls back
 to life the energy
 that lives in your body
 about to explode.

 Eyes that keep clinging
 intensely
 to the chinks
 till injuring the pupils.
What rests impressed
is the negative of a picture
against the piteous surface
of your eyelids closing
to soothe the grief.

 One gate of fire,
 like a dark red prison
 out of focus,
 and the grimace of terror
 being eternally trapped
 inside yourself
 are the unbearable sensations
 of not being able to get rid
 of your body
 and flying with the wind.


  METROPOLITAN VESPER

  Pushed to my shoulders
  also to my loins:
  people are pitiless with me.

  A red stop light halts me
  I can't walk:
  it's forbidden!

  Finally an opened church
  in the metropolitan outskirts
  forsaken by God.

  It's Vesper time.

  I count closely
  the slow and respectful noise
  of my steps as deadened cannons.
  I'd like to fly
  not hearing myself.
  The glances of people
  as swarms that buzz
  around me.

  I feel observed
  by all.
  It is a darned sensation
  to have all eyes
  staring at my body

What if a blasphemy would
 go out of my mouth right now?
 Just here,
 in this church!

  It's a thought that tortures
  my mind,
  a terrifying shout
  that comes within me
  and is out of  my control.
  The terror,  that it could happen.
  Between the sweat my forehead
  and the sweat of my hands
  while my body barely stands up
  laid on an endless sorrow
  I push out of my mind
  with all the strength I have left
  till I reach out the purity
  of my most beautiful feelings.
 

  Two wounded hands
  explains the suffering
  of man
  and in my heart
  shyly
  one prayer of gratitude arises.


 THE SMILE OF JEALOUSY
 

 You were free
 but I was free too.
 In a night club
 with old friends
 all together
 to forget
 the daily frustrations
 dancing like idiots
 till morning.

 I watched him
 while he was talking to you.
 Unpleasant,
 with the whiff of beer,
 disgusting like a worm
 you may squash.
 He kissed your neck
 and I was smiling at you
 with a smile so big
 deeper than a mirror
 when it reflects itself.

 He talked to you
 with his lips almost
 touching yours.
 I could see his yellow teeth
 and felt pity for you.
 He wasn't worth a nail
 of my toe
 and so I took a knife from the desk
 and cut his throat.

 My smile
 blinding like a sunbeam
 into your eyes
 took off your sight
 just when I was slashing
 your heart
 without any pity,
 the more you shouted
 the deeper I went.

 When you both were
 sitting down again
 I kept smiling at you.

 I will have always
 a smile for you,
 sweet baby of mine.


THE LOST KISS

 The light penetrates my eyes
 like Siegfried’s effulgent sword
 with the evil power.
 His body became invulnerable
 less than a feather of skin
 on the human part of his clothes.
 Will I seek glory
 or only lost time?
 I will walk back
 the path of time
 that today closes
 the doors of my wishes.
 
I don't want to go outside.
 The sun injures me.
 The fever I have inside
 folds me
 while the memory
 of that missed kiss
 still is bursting.
 Good night Marcel
 Without a kiss from mom
 and I recall the same steps
 with the same fear
 of missed love.
 No one will know
 the time that passes by
 for creating
 this immortal monument
 endless like the voices
 of my soul
 that still marks the seconds.
 It will live
 in the perennial memory
 of my research
 and  will never
 get lost anymore.
 
 


WORKSHOP

 Smell of gasoline,
 my gear.
 Two red buttons
 as eyes of a demon
 on my body.
 I am walking
 on quicksand
 that reminds me
 of the softness of my bed.
 My hands try to cling
 to corners of a space
 I don't feel are mine.

 I must hold those darned buttons!
 I must give life to the machines
 while my life dwells
 into heart's beats
 slow and heavy
 like the steps of my shoes.
 I can count them
 as well as I count the time
 left for my life.

 I don't want to die right away!

 Suddenly
 one hit on my shoulders,
 a friendly hello,
 an unexpected good morning
 while shades of dark smoke
 made black my sight.

 What happiness
 feeling again
 the fresh wind of the morning,
 the life in my body,
 in my toes
 in all the fingers
 of my hands
 that now can turn on
 two red buttons.

 The workshop takes life
 and so do I!



 HIM

 Cry,
 shout as you like!
 I already know
 she will run to you!

 I don't exist  anymore for you.
 Since he is here
 I'm like dead man.
 I could also go away
 and you wouldn't notice.
 You live only for him,
 every moment
 every fucked second
 of each day.

 Why can't  I
 love my son?

 Why do I hate him so much?

 He has my same eyes
 and the shape of your face.
 I look closely at the right corner
 of my window
 that leads to the courtyard.
 What is the horrible mystery
 that breaks up my soul?

 Tomorrow I will take care
 of him like you do,
 not now!
 Tonight let me die here,
 let me drown
 in this darned
 cold potage.


 MY DEAR PARENTS
 

 My dear parents
 better you know
 I don't love to look handsome.
 I want to be unpleasant for all!
 To the hypocrisy
 I do prefer my kicks and my spits.
 I like to show
 my naked ass
 in my quarter.
 I like to see people
 that pretend not to see me.

 This folly makes you afraid.

 Even the Roman greeting
 Didn't daunt you
 Because you did that
 and then forgot
 and right away
 you do it again
 under other shapes and flags.

 You make me laugh!

 I like going outside
 as I am
 without a handkerchief and tie.

 Kind lady
 are you afraid of a man
 with only his undies?
 I guess you saw so many without!

 I'm really sorry
 you are scandalized
 my dear parents
 but I do want to feel free
 to give myself to death
 with my hands
 rather than falling into
 the annihilation
 of your immoral laws.


 OLD WINE

 I like the blonde color
 of this good wine
 sincere and confident
 like nothing else.

 Waving the glass
 is the same as
 having in my hands
 all the sea
 so limpid and clear
 you can see through it.

 The town in the night
 makes me feel older.
 I have always the sensation
 someone is following me.

 The worse instincts
 in the night get up
 and burst into darkness
 of destroyed and snapped souls
 from the emptiness of time.

 Why do you want your hand up
 against an old man
 that smells of wine?
 You are more alone and drunk
 then me, poor boy!
 You are so young and sick
 and the voice
 you are listening to
 is more sick than mine.
 Is it my money you want?
 Take it
 but don't kill me!
 It's for you that I say this,
 not for me!
 
 


 LOVE'S LETTER

  My dear ...

 darn, today I can't write.
 Something is wrong.
 Oops...I see,
 there are some pens
 out of place
 and one kleenex
 from the day before
 left on my notes.

 Let's restart!

 I don't feel well.
 what is wrong?

 The frame of your picture.
 It is not well placed
 and bothers me.
 Also the desk doesn't look centered.
 I get up and look at it closely.
 My eyes
 like a laser beam
 scan with extreme precision
 the leg of the desk
 that does not fit perfectly
 with the center of the tile.
 I must have moved it.
 The external mess
 drives me nuts
 and reflects its moans
 inside of me.

 At last
 all has been fixed
 exactly
 perfectly
 like in a family's picture.
 I feel fulfilled
 finally!
 


 SATURDAY AT THE GROCERY STORE

 Too much time has past
 since you went to the grocery store.
 Buying bread and water
 doesn't take that long.

 Why in the late evening?
 On Saturday?
 I feel the veins of my temples
 getting swollen
 and the fire of the anger
 eroding within me.
 I wish I could see you
 right now
 with my eyes.
 I know,
 I do know
 you're giving yourself
 to him.
 To a grocer!
 I see his hands
 caressing your body
 and my ire
 like an irrepressible fury
 would overtake all the mountains
 and go through
 all the sea and rivers
 of this earth.

 Ah unfaithful woman,
 you must be back!

 My hands are ready.
 I won't let your mouth lie.
 I must save your soul
 from the sin.
 I'm here
 on the front porch
 waiting for you.

Oh... your innocent face
 and your guiltless glance
 are like a red-hot blade
 in my injuries
 the deepest ones of my mind.

Don't say a word!
 Shut up!
 Die now!
 


 SAINT-REMY
 

 Hey nurse,
 leave me alone!
 The noise of the wind
 and the shouts of the sky
 will be enough.

 Blue cirrus and circles of fire,
 I want to see the color
 splashing on the canvas
 like the blood that splashed out
 of my ear.
 Paul,
 Paul,
 why did you abandon me.
 I'll paint myself
 with the ear bandaged
 so I won't feel
 the shout of pain
 amplified from my senses
 that push me over
 what I'm able to bear.

 More canvas, nurse,
 more colors, run!
 The Art is about to explode
 in my bowel
 I can't stop it.
 It's the energy that wants
 to overflow beyond the dam
 of my bones,
 a fury
 that obsesses my vibrating hands
 around colors
 that keep the same taste
 of my death.
 


WHITE TELEPHONE

 Lonely as always
 in the desert of my home.
 In the night
 you may hear the wind
 and the pitiless loneliness
 whistling in your ears.
 Tempests of sand.
 Uncertain hands
 protect tormented eyes
 from endless grains
 of wee stones.
 The dream of a mirage
 like a caress of love
 into the color
 of a white telephone.
 The need of a human voice
 to cover the hideous voices
 of overlaid silences
 that hiss violently
 from each piece of furniture
 of my home.
 My crazy heart
 beats in my throat
 while trembling
 I try to call
 the number of hope
 on the keypad
 of a white telephone
 like a lily of love
 in my left hand.


 SMUDGY DOLL

 Sleep my sweetie.
 I will stay here hugging you
 until the sleep
 cleans the tears
 from your sore little eyes.

 How many tears are shed
 for a little smudgy doll!
 Don't be afraid
 your dad will always have
 a  new little doll for you.

 Tomorrow,
 when the sun gets
 the color you love so much
 and I see your little arms
 running to me
 you will get a new doll again
 really more beautiful than
 the spoiled one,
 more beautiful than the color
 of a sunset,
 more beautiful than blue fate
 but it would never be
 as beautiful as you are
 my little baby.

 Oh still a tear!
 Let's take it off altogether
 and your glance
 will again be sparkling
 like the stars
 of your enchanted worlds.

 Yes,
 your mom is sleeping now,
 I'll  wait for you to sleep
 while I lay here next to you.


 THE LAST LETTER

The last letter
 is always the most difficult
 to write.
 It doesn't come from the heart
 nor from the mind.
 There is a white paper
 and one name barely readable
 and your pen
 that your trembling hands hold.
 Your eyes look for reasons
 for the absence of  things.
 It's a voice that takes origin
 from your stomach
 physically
 as a part of you
 stabbing and painful
 from an acute grief.
 You might touch it
 till you perceive
 the physical essence
 of the torments of your thoughts.
 The pen drops
 on the white paper
 while in only one word
 the last letter
 of your life,
 the shortest,
 has been written.
 



LITTLE GREEN DOT

 Green numbers
 mark the time that passes by.

 A little intermittent
 green dot
 beats with the rhythm of my heart.
 The white ceiling
 reflects the subtle color
 that heats the walls
 of my room.
 In the safety of warms blankets
 the coldness of life calms down
 Suddenly
 the clock radio stops
 and the room falls into darkness.

 It's a moment
 almost imperceptible
 and barely you have
 the time to realize
 that the murk
 is the only thing you have around.

 An inexplicable sense of emptiness
 wraps up your body.
 Your heart is lost
 as the little dot is dead
 and it beats the time of fear.
 It's the need of the light
 maybe the light of life.
 It's strange
 but a little dot
 even the smallest
 like the little flame of hope
 can make you feel alive
 like the heat
 of a word of love.


COMPULSION

 The sound of footsteps
 without any control,
 Toes that seems
 to drag the motion of bodies.
 Dark shoes.
 Finally an old model
 with laces.
 I keep waiting anxiously
 for a pair of red shoes.
 Colors in my mind
 that move and follow
 the rhythm of a far life.
 The sight of a grate
 under my eyes
 attracts my glance.
 Just as quick
 as a flash of lightning
 all the iron segments
 have been counted.
 102 like the fever
 that is devouring me.
 With the prick of my shoes
 I touch them meticulously
 one after another.
 I can't skip any of them!
 It is a grueling work
 of patience
 if I make an error
 I must restart.
 What a strange life mine is!
 Counting always
 counting all
 knowing there is nothing
 really interesting to me.

 This night
 I'll try to count
 the minutes
 the eternal minutes still left
 before I die
 knowing that I can't
 get back in time:
 life and death
 for me
 are the algebraic addition
 of nothing!
 
 


 THE GLANCE
 

 In a waiting room
 of a hospital
 a young girl
 looks at the outlines
 of a window.
 She is sitting and immobile
 with a fixed glance
 perhaps barely pending
 on undefinable motions of time.
 

Blond hair,
Pupils like two white pearls.
a glance that dismays you