Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Philip Meersman


Meanwhile in Budapest


Out of a blue sky
a thunderstorm ambushed
the breakfast crowd
a gigantic grass stampeed
naked fish
steamed in a railroadcan
midst essences of hormonal mouthwash

They – like cattle ready for slaughter – stared@
a squadron of the Spanish Armada
searching frentic

Picasso left
already
with Gauguin
to the south of France
Courbet, Corot and Rodin
guided me
to
Christ Carrying the Cross

(again you might think
doesn’t he get tired
of carrying
that heavy load!?),

but this time
Sebastiano del Piombo
made Him do it.

(And how!)

1.     In a penitency cloak
haloing sadness
and inner pain
2.     With long fingers stretched tired
over the beam
as was it the moment
before blowing on a frail flute
a funeral elegy
3.     Against a carbon grey background
absorbing the obscured surrounding
dissolving into the panel in which His Sorrow is kept.

His Pain varnished the pigment
His Blessing lacquered the varnish

Mas mojitos” seemed to be the answer to all party preguntas

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Brussels




Swamp, Village, City, Iris
Museums stuffed, dinosaurs
Pissing girl, pissing boy
Cathedral, chorus, Ode of Joy
We are Brussels. Lower your shields, surrender yourself. Resistance is futile.
Pentagon, small ring, Leopold,
Louise, Haren, Laeken. Hold!
Neder-over-heembeek.
Who to assimilate next? Strombeek
Waterloo, Braine, Rode or Anderlecht?
We are Brussels. Lower your shields, surrender yourself. Resistance is futile.
Fortifications, Revolution, Frenchification, EU
We are Brussels. Lower your shields, surrender yourself. Resistance is futile.
Baudelaire, Blanc and Boulanger
They fled here due to grave danger
Jacques Louis David
Painted and ran, vite vite vite
Dumas, Hugo and Proudhon too
They wrote around here a book or two
And than there was Rodin
At Bourse - they say - enfin
He sculpted nudes to feed his kin
Africa - Asia, the original sin
A writer and trader of coffee and tea
Welcome the writer Multatuli
Verlaine, Rimbaud poetically rebelled
Engels and Marx, even got expelled
We are Brussels. Lower your shields, surrender yourself. Resistance is futile.
Brel, Bertrand and Thielemans
Let’s here it, any fans?
and yeah (oh God) Marc Dutroux
He’s on my list of people too
Erasing evil with the Singing Nun
She sang until her cross was hung
Audrey Hepburn film-dream mythology
Lévi-Strauss structural anthropology
We are Brussels. Lower your shields, surrender yourself. Resistance is futile.
Peyo drew smurfs
Hergé Tintin
Poelaert buildings, eclectic sin
The list goes on
with Tits and Tome
Spaak, Toussaint, Van Damme, Tramont
van Istendael, Vesalius too
Impressive, isn’t it, this who’s who.
We are Brussels. Lower your shields, surrender yourself. Resistance is futile.
Arno, Barnard, Béjart and Brouwers
Brueghel, Bucquoy with his panties with flowers
Erasmus, Horta, Hoxha, Magritte
Merckx, the Canibal, are also in this heat
Solvay, the chemist, the business, but, look
van der Weyden, Van Gogh, yeah Vincent, and van Ruysbroeck
HUB, VUB, ULB
Erasmus and Saint-Louis
The officers of the military
We are Brussels. Lower your shields, surrender yourself. Resistance is futile.
Old politics, new politics, unemployment, gay,
Magreb, Congo, the US and the UK
Russia, China, Asia, Africa,
intercultural monologue, asylum seeking algebra
We are Brussels. Lower your shields, surrender yourself. Resistance is futile.
advertize
africanize
americanize
arabize
balkanize
barbarize
bastardize
colonize
colorize
commercialize
communalize
demonize
dogmatize
dramatize
emotionalize
eroticize
europeanize
feminize
fetishize
feudalize
fossilize
ghettoize
legalize
merchandize
patronize
penalize
radicalize
stigmatize
terrorize
trivialize
urbanize
vandalize
victimize
vulgarize
compromize
USS Enterprise
We are Brussels. Lower your shields, surrender yourself. Resistance is futile.
Bashing, slashing, attacking and winning
Parliaments, governments, Councils and predicaments
Ministries, committees, agencies, communities,
Asylum seekers, NGO’s, Representatives and fugitives,
Journalists, socialists, communists,
economists, anarchists, lobbyists,
politicians, physicians, doctors, nurses,
diplomats, bureaucrats, eurocrats, curses
We are Brussels. Lower your shields, surrender yourself. Resistance is futile.
We are Brussels. Lower your shields, surrender yourself. Resistance is futile.
We are Brussels. Lower your shields, surrender yourself. Resistance is futile.
We are Brussels. Lower your shields, surrender yourself. Resistance is futile.
We are Brussels. Lower your shields, surrender yourself. Resistance is futile.

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