Jan Lauwereyns
13 sculptures in time

 

[ ] eternal railway worker gazing at always at something a dead man at his survival a dead man at the waste [ ] of rock and the iron bar that went through the thick of his skull blazing a trail for many [ ] of thought [ ] just got up and kept walking [ ] like a four wheel drive because dead men don’t get hard dead men live the mellow life [ ] we prefer the calmer zombie what did I say [ ] here you [ ] activation of a swift manual assault mechanism [ ] sing my little darlings or Zen [ ] keeping things spotless [ ] is the name of this poetry [ ] thinnest of sheets with its green [ ] memory of immaculate flesh there is wetness where there is no fire

 

 

[ ] waking up to a habit what [ ] nuns pull over their earthly vehicles [ ] OR-gates proving to be [ ] a week of free association with criminals hoodlums [ ] while ise changes to ize before my eyes [ ] political implications limited word-order freedom and a phobia for neologism [ ] which my hunch says has all the characteristics of [ ] the snake that can never say the whole [ ] wriggling wrapping itself around a branch never speaking more than one word at a [ ] where’s that freight train when I need it [ ] biases of language in the expectation that certain verbs take certain [ ] together like the python’s vertebrae [ ]

 

 

pressing matters arise by way of [ ] extension during sleep [ ] characterized by the spookiness of [ ] eye movements behind closed lids while all other muscles relax and [ ] danger of wetting your sheets [ ] by random distribution of seminal ideas [ ] where you can’t pee you might ejaculate [ ] through some retrograde quantum-physical leap [ ] reaching me as my fingers get ready [ ] like the very [ ] extension [ ] it would all have been a lot neater if we’d be uttering that sound we now do with [ ] o live yiu [ ]

 

 

Eros denied the song judged irritable [ ] refuted ideas strengthened for sheer [ ] religious beliefs lurking behind open doors [ ] a way to verbalize objects whirlwinds epiphanies so that they [ ] questionable but irrefutable [ ] even the most reluctant capitulation will then occur of its own [ ] fountains of blood squirting from leveled necks [ ] logic the soundness of arguments [ ] decapitator science [ ] stare down the digital clock [ ] fixed at a certain time as it is most of the time [ ] if it weren’t for these sudden quirks these little jolts feeling good at first but [ ] how can it ever really be silent if time doesn’t stop that nonstop train must have spoken to us somehow [ ] yes two desires converging on the same impossible

 

 

the old and deeply wrinkled lady [ ] dropped to the hungry floor she had flair all right and the floor did too [ ] octogenarians museum floors [ ] this seems to me to be it does [ ] little line of defense [ ] the personal swaying of pine tree islets on a misty coast [ ] a commuter train hiking up a steep hill [ ] a contiguity principle [ ] when are we ever going to get out of inspiration [ ] into exasperation if [ ] meager attributes of [ ] quiet life keep capturing your attention [ ] eyes moving laterally [ ]

 

 

[ ] the development installation and maintenance of response bias prejudice determining how good we feel [ ] how motivated we are to perform the most tortuous [ ] courtship [ ] with extreme examples of self-sacrifice [ ] almost paradoxical from the viewpoint of neurochemical processing [ ] honestly significant truly major task [ ] we need to identify the variables [ ] genuine God-fearing feelings [ ] resolving the conundrum of willingly doing the unwillable [ ] climbing and clambering on decapitated [ ] aim is to investigate the interaction between fear arousal religion and social cooperation [ ] skin conductance pupil dilation heart rate [ ]

 

 

even the nasty noise of the fearless wind [ ] uncontrollable [ ] winged beasts of predation [ ] they flew harrowingly [ ] narrowly past [ ] that immoral animal [ ] we never quite seem not to be [ ] when we happen to be [ ] with an axe in our hands and a plan for cleavage in our heads [ ] persuade those that think differently into giving up their ghost [ ] ousted tortured and otherwise [ ] pacified [ ] bites the dust and another one does and another one does [ ]

 

 

the choice it is [ ] or often appears to be [ ] moving laborious and [ ] staying easy a logic of space and effort where the dead man’s at [ ] where the dead man sat [ ] down the miles of rock[ ] his spear of imagination his winged serpent [ ] cannot speak but says more than plenty [ ] ways of certain hormones and other bits that got expensive names in even certainer sciences [ ] the enjoyable kind [ ] one magnanimously agreeing to take [ ] what the other gleefully consents putting there [ ] an elastic sense of self and oh [ ]

 

 

never one dies until one is dead the dead man said gnawing on one of his [ ] corpses [ ] licking clean a collar bone [ ] at that very temporal of junctures [ ] not altogether unattractive shape of she-person and what is [ ] life if not a meal that would have tasted better [ ] the thing does not last nor does it first we all simply hanging [ ] in any way that can be conceived or otherwise related [ ] all so abstract fast fleeting [ ] doing their getaways around your here’s [ ] the speed of different temperatures [ ] naked winter trees [ ] ripped out whole and seen to be flying [ ]

 

 

[ ] collectors of [ ] red bush tea plucking wages [ ] among the wealthiest of this [ ] planet [ ] which is righteousness [ ] answers being provided for the lack of questions oh and how the little pockets filled [ ] little sluts nay slits through which [ ] rays from all corners arrive at the same focal point [ ] I sees what you mean dear sir [ ] round ones and forward ones shy ones and wobbly ones [ ] is and forever shall be [ ] in nature unkind and exclusive derisive [ ]

 

 

[ ] what is there over there to say [ ] dead man could not find it in his heart to tell [ ] she all skin and bone and extremely concentrated [ ] utilitarian focus of attention still intact [ ] preventing mind at large from flooding the mud-tone world [ ] most sheep unlike [ ] several illimitable days between chicken legs and dried figs [ ] now that could be construed as a problem [ ] successfully argue out of existence [ ] sometimes it is difficult to see anything but carbohydrates [ ] your average handful of dirt a bimanual gesture to go with the bringing of [ ] foodstuff to the principle orifice [ ]

 

 

heated air evidence of expiration dripping out that gagged mouth [ ] frankly if not confidently facing the naked page [ ] until we drop or bleed or blood starts pounding where it mightn’t have but might [ ] on the premise that or that [ ] certain things can be [ ] fingered [ ] out [ ] abysmal laws of nature inscrutable materialism all the mystical things that make dead [ ] horsemen [ ] swallow them whole [ ] so many things [ ] out of whack [ ] worn down by the bodily tomb a perfect balance of juices and energy [ ] unshakeable creatures basking in the sun

 

 

[ ] this roughly flowery existence effectively deadens the gaze [ ] sun traps and sexual organs [ ] all there is to life everlasting [ ] mainly displacement of materials [ ] dead men may not care but they cannot will not fail to notice the bouquet put in front of them [ ] the very fact of being there [ ] a brain in a vat [ ] dripping tears for the withering colours the shrivelling contours [ ] the short life and torturous death of dehydration [ ] every gorgeous specimen another [ ] ear should wish to say [ ] if not come [ ] true