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‘Prisoner: Come Out!’

March 24, 2019 by Jan Herman

‘Clap Trap’ © 2019 by Gerard Bellaart [oil on canvas, 120×90 cm.]

In the beginning
was the Word—
been in You
for a toolong time.
I rub out the word.
You in the Word
and the Word in You
is a word-lock
like the combination
of a vault or a valise.
If you love your vaults,
listen no further. 
I spin the lock
on your Interior Space Kit.
Prisoner: Come Out!

Quotation from Brion Gysin
Let the Mice In 


And a variation:

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  1. Cy Lester says

    March 24, 2019 at 11:39 am

    Gysin began The Battle of the Pronouns. Gysin said – literature was fifty years behind paintings. Genesis P. Orridge was still at school … Chelsea Manning was a spirit waiting to be born.

    • Jan Herman says

      March 24, 2019 at 11:49 am

      Love those connections!

  2. william osborne says

    March 25, 2019 at 3:01 am

    I watched how Chelsea Manning and the Guantanamo prisoners were treated. There’s a mindset of extreme human objectification in the military that is actually a psychological perversion. Watching the military’s behavior, I literally felt like I was looking at perverts. How is our country ever going to find its way back to sanity?

    • Jan Herman says

      March 25, 2019 at 5:43 pm

      we are a militarized shithole, to paraphrase the emperor of trumpistan, so what else to expect? we were militarized before he was crowned, of course, long before. so . . . finding its way back to sanity seems more remote than ever.

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