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Keguro Macharia
Born and raised in Nairobi, Kenya, Keguro Macharia studies
and lives in the US. His creative and critical work, as yet unpublished, though in process, obsesses over love, death,
sex, and rock-n-roll, in nostalgic homage to the 1970s.
love
songs and elegies: a cycle
For Matthew
Shephard
At some
point we must inhabit ourselves
-Kathleen Fraser
I
the point will
have to be the in-between interest
of mili centi deci deca hecto kilo grammars
sewing shut a pleasure is suing for a chest
choices made are life's little freedoms
in the green
there is more grinning
blood money buying votes or cobs of maize
so brown stands apart or in a shrouding
buffalo lands in bottles of glass beads
if tomorrow
were a conditional in a subjunctive
who is not smart yet to be a radical
all about eve is all about eve and leave
lets get physic emotion spirit or all
when touching
is there where is immanence
or questions building as at incipience
(hunger)
II
apropos:
softness which is a tongue in
of orifacials
which sounds official
soundings of
hardness and learned monologues
synesthesia
means I can watch tv
so he laughs
at vegetables in chairs
In absentia
means his disappointment
though
discriminating is opposite
what is
surprising that vices are true
if it is all
simulated angles
Actions is without a script and silence
Or your soft pieces gently placed in me
And both lacking in technicality
Giggles in green gardens or secret ones
How melodramas are lustful in tights
(body)
III
what is
visible and a persona
mirrors are objects reflecting objects
distances accrue with recognizing
in tripartite layers there is middle
liminal spaces between it and glass
or angled that beautiful in lighting
is embodied in specular hardness
wideness in broadness and narrow stands back
which eternal
eye in slivers can break
seeing in semantics being hermeneutic
but hermetic is closed doors and bathrooms
so touching reveals sensuality
the opacity of opticity
frames are control devices or borders
(gaze)
IV
locations
emerge in the arranging
when flipping over is extra footage
so in fixities there is releasing
warmth that is doubling or intimacy
because things sound how they feel in
that experiences are transcendental
or stripings speaking obscene comminglings
in purple is passionately speaking
as lengthening is growing excitement
for in strategy there is colliding
which as collusion is not repeating
subtle in lusting musk exudes a scent
frottage and mutual manipulation
ravished in ecstatic prolonged pleasure
(sexual
positions)
V
compassed in
centrality or around
which is a building or a cornerstone
distorted boundaries lines drawn as crooked
speciation and specification
taxonomies classify differences
joyful affirmation of contingency
a long held belief in narcissism
which as personal bespeaks authority
inhabiting whiteness impaled as pure
ambiguities dressed as well wrought urns
inscribing residual antinomies
meritocracy is non-essential
embedded in spectacles of color
lived in erotic generosity
(Being)
VI
what becomes a
tragedy and is not
responsibility or semantics
absolution in lachrymal outpourings
dispensations by feeling as purging
what is angry and cannot be healing
carnations remind me of funerals
in profusion there is colored cloying
as closeness or heavy padded windows
hysteria modifies crying and laughing
as excess is in proliferation
adagio is sexy in between acts
farewell like raindrops perspire in dropping
empathy which is a plagiarism
fictionalized bodies make great movies
(mourning)
VII
Because
thinking technology changed it
in my focusing there is distracting
picturing desire as liberation
wet out of breath cream authenticity
revolutionary pornography
closed eyes participate in imaging
indifferent desire meaning palpable
confessional modes explicitly dark
disclosure deferring transient pleasure
syllogisms are myths and fantasies
closed eyes make it beautiful in dark rooms
scarlet marks intensity and stale blood
as soreness indicates maturity
supple and pliant words that do not break
(techne
of love)
VIII
see
smell
taste
touch
caress
kiss
(
)
. . .
kiss
caress
touch
taste
smell
see
(words)
IX
He wears blue
jeans and a button down shirt
He wears blue jeans and a button down shirt
He wears blue jeans and a button down shirt
He wears blue jeans and a button down shirt
He kisses his
mother in the morning
He kisses his mother in the morning
He kisses his mother in the morning
He kisses his mother in the morning
He takes long
showers while singing love songs
He takes long showers while singing love songs
He takes long showers while singing love songs
He takes long showers while singing love songs
He eats ice
cream cones from the bottom up
He eats ice cream cones from the bottom up
(minutiae)
X
Then is
awkward and becomes enabling
In hardness
resistance as yearning
Emerging as
resistance not escape
Inarticulate
asphyxiation
Distance
transcends in ambiguity
Marginality as
authority
In cross
paradoxical parodies
Slow songs as
love songs slow songs as life songs
Functional
spheres manifest as gestalt
Incommensurable
affinities
Textured
language fabricated meanings
Phallic
unrepresentability
Naming desire
as protean certitude
At some point
I must inhabit jouissance
(desire)
copyright
© Keguro Macharia
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