E Mail To Damniso Lopez 69

E MAIL TO DAMNISO LOPEZ 69


Turn right
at the spot of time
where the heavy stone
was moved a half-mile by a storm.
This place
is a magic space
where one can go into a trance
and write history backwards,
starting with a time
when wild iris grew in a black bog
where now
is a counter in a shopping center
selling
commentaries
on the exchange of aporias
between Derrida and Stiegler
printed calligraphically
on Chinese rice paper.

In this magic space
made magic by the buried bones
of ten-story high dinosaurs
will be found a stone statue
of the patch of a one-eyed Pirate.
Although the rest of his face is absent
remainder of his body missing.

The statue has been photographed
many times by book readers,
especially the readers of Herman Melville.
The statue is also watched
through binoculars from a distant balcony
where girls in bikinis suntan
at five o’clock in the afternoon.

Clips of the patch are stolen
and smoked by people in the Ghetto.



Duane Locke

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