ACOUSTICS AND CACOPHONIES

By: Jonathan Gulson

 

Accidents are avoidable like ambulance rides. Designs made from life-support
systems prolongue only ill-health. Discourse of course, this cancer of modern life at ease with disease, industrial vaccinations and all offering of ill-sounding reverberations: thought filters and acoustic purity abort architecture. I know it's sound before it plays. It being...

..pleasure: intuitive desire. Ocean folds rising higher: absolving aquaducts, genocide and other fascinations with an unliveable history of
non-productive nihilism. Numbing landscapes where reflexes don't exist, only
pre-programmed sequences of behaviour. Do as we are told in other words: be
what we've already been. ...intermission

Comment from a Nottingham echo : acquaduct and holocaust memorials both
assume equal significance when presented as undeniable parts of our heritage. One was invented to transport an embryonic empire into higher stages of development; and one was invented to ship raw materials from place to place, advancing England across an English globe.

Comment: Yes. Its not that we've one foot treading history: we're standing
two-footed in our past, and what remains of our bodies is pulled across time
like a medieval stretching machine. We build museums to guard a collective
memory and observe on instinct. We are disenfranchised from history.

...cont'd ..An ideal education mantra is: learn, qualify, project & live. Accumulate snapshots of knowledge by which life becomes just that. Intent in
these circumstances is an ability to speak of events and offer opinion, or even expert appraisal. You gain a skill, a discipline: a demand and usefulness. You earn a living; and then a death.

Ambulance rides of mishappenings know lament. A point of departure from what we know, arriving at accidents and emergencies. Because this universe
doesn't happen by chance: if it did, it could not accomodate its own
contents. Or be large enough for every eventuality. Our projections would
not stop until global dominance is ours. Its this impossibility which lives in our memory. Dichotomy explodes on hearing an imaginary sound, and we
remember no longer.

It becomes exhausting to formulate thoughts for everything.

 

Jonathan Gulson is a convicted criminal living in England.

Other works by Jonathan Gulson:

Cancer of Modern Life

Material Surround of Defined Thought

Transitory Silence

 

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