14 June 2025
25 June 2025
or worse
infinite discography
every star’s heartbeat
every muon’s answer
i wanna listen for eternity
to eternity
yet when i put on
messiaen boulez
stockhausen stones any
thing from the sixties on
my attention shrinks
to two minutes
before i’m thinking
of alternatives, the way
they could have composed
it they could have
made it more
like what i wanna hear.
what arrogance i’ve got to bear,
my arrogance i mean, why
can’t i accept perfection
for what it is: collapsing
possibilities from the past
at the rate of passing time?
i could peel a banana
for a century in slo mo
and there’s the answer:
even after twenty minutes
the golden thing goes brown
that’s my limit, i must
stretch it to a curse.