from gates and buildings

[Alan Sondheim]

from gates and buildings


substation gates, plateglass front window, display case surface

http://www.asondheim.org/speechofbuilding.mp3

please be careful while listening, even at low volume; subsonic
rumbles about 3/4 the way through tend to rattle speakers

entities mouth speak, it's the nature of the world
resonance where and when coherency occurs
the same for partial entities, for no entities at all
world murmuring the world
things are temporary coagulations
they're not yet torn apart
they're speaking as if they were one, coherent,
as if someone said unity
as if the saying made it so
as if the saying made it so for all time
and all transportation from one space to any other

i recording the mouthing of the world, mouthing of the cosmos
what you might ignore shuddering somewhere in a building
or before a wooden gate

perhaps you're thinking of entering
perhaps you're thinking of nothing, walking on



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