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Andrew M Bell Feb 2015
Once I looked to the Bard for words profound;
ageless, his wisdom ran unabated.
Yet Hamlet is now ideologically unsound,
“the slings and arrows” historically Iocated.
I wept for the creature of Frankenstein,
spurned by his master, forced to roam the Earth.
But I’d been subjectively positioned in a paradigm
by Mary’s anxiety about childbirth.
I read Balzac, Hardy and Henry James
describing “worlds” which seemed quite sensible.
Now Eagleton’s exposed their bourgeois games
I find them morally reprehensible.
I dreamt of being Robinson Crusoe
or proud, fierce Hawkeye in his buckskins dressed,
but Fenimore and Defoe have to go,
they’re culturally encoded and empirically obsessed.
Inspired by Guinness, did James Joyce sit down
to see what magic flowed when he was ******?
The stream of Ulysses floats Bloom-about-town
dreamthinkingnever : “I’mamodernist”.

I’d gladly give Woolf a Room of Her Own
and be one of the boys with Hemingway,
but sensitive guys leave their bulls alone
say de Beauvoir and Luce Irigaray.
No more fun with Wordsworth being daffodilly,
no simple pleasure reading Mickey Mouse;
Steamboat Willie can’t help but look silly
dissected by Foucault and Levi-Strauss.
The Bible shows intertextuality
says the two Jacques, Lacan and Derrida.
Judas, a construct of bisexuality?
The **** fixations of Herod are?

It’s got so bad I deconstruct a holiday brochure.
I can’t even **** without Roland Barthes and Ferdinand de Saussure.
Copyright Andrew M. Bell.
Sia Jane Dec 2013
One look at her and I begin
to wonder
what is hiding there?

Is it the colours in her skin
the curls in her hair
the look in her eye
as she glances far and wide

Beyond the scope of
this old camera lens
no amount of effort
is taken to account
pinks, blues and blacks
all have the same impact

Her stare infectious
Her eyes so telling
Her smile whispers stories
of all those saints and sinners

Golds reflect and clash
with the studios bright lights
her eyes are those same sunbeams
her body burning them to the ground

Look her in the eye
studying her face
perfection is muted
another word needed
to replace a name
I wish to give her

Muse

Lacan brought to us
the concept of the gaze
for how shall she see herself?

Like a child's first glance?
Alice's long stare?
or is she simply oblivious
to the beauty she exudes.

© Sia Jane

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The narration, in fact, doubles the drama
with a commentary without which no mise en scene would be possible.

Jacques Lacan
Stanley Wilkin Apr 2016
1.
The darkness fled before me
While I stayed in the light
The black covering both land and sea
Destroying sight.
Basking in the heat, burning in the sun
We toasted the darkness, once it had gone.

God had said, wringing out his curls, ‘let there be light’,
Clearly, the dark came first.
But god floundered at night
And darkness he thunderingly accursed.
It was sent temporarily away
While god fashioned ‘Day’.

Yet, the dark was firstborn
The preferred planned child
And visually undernourished and presciently worn
Was the expected, the ideal, not the reviled;
Day was only a change of mind
God, the twister, making us see when we are blind.



2.
It was of an infinite hue, purple not black
Deepening towards the centre, consuming everything
A materialisation of Lacan’s Lack
Without substance, pleasure or pain.
It delved in and out in senseless monotony
Heightening sensation here, there performing a lobotomy.

At times, it reflected me and then it reflected you
Assembling features, and reassembling,
But never with every ****** nuance true
It shuffled several, naturally dissembling,
Unable to be fixed. It pretended to be human,
But like you and me, it shuffled like a golem.

Flying away it came back with equal velocity
Opening its imagined maw
Emitting as it approached tongues of electricity
Through time it tore.
Past and future congealed into a putty-like mass
Dying with the light, it disappeared up my ***
Alex Jun 2020
****** souls lead to ****** faces.
Unloved kids lead to untied laces.
Unpaid men lead to unsafe places.
Lovely poems lead to unread pages.
Johnny Noiπ Jan 2019
If the girls are beautiful,                                                they damage my love,
my food, my heart and my skin.
Ancient ants save the ancestors of divine
life, Eugene's Cloud Secret, Anxiety, ants
After a woman died in the fields,                           the defenders helped food,
food, gold, history and other wings,
like small veins daily of the body.
The first time you talk a little, you burn letters
and you can see it through a very difficult convention:
Tangrausch lin, Sumisaksi.
The results appear in the game
Dark Navy in the country dNole
Address in the central part of the state of the development field,
occurs in several areas of the association, yes, so silky.
This place is perfect for the preparation of beet, wood,
and ideal for Lacan,                                                           ­    Canasta Schranz.
The government believes that Grassetas
has an interesting flavor in your hands.
The ngakhantsi topeg and the mixed-text
smile suit adapt to his daughter,
stabbing Registan's legs in the knee.
Fill these plates with fillet boxes.
Weather Manduja's Restraint Face,
Dark Anne Bank Hammer
can disinfect the repetition
of breast cancer by resonance.
Many of these roads have been destroyed,
the animals are piled around the arms
of Fatima and the story has been raining for all,
Milo asked for some honey
and covered the source of light.
Improve the size Full scanning,
reduction of stigmas and observation
of the sled run as the corner mirror,
the rotating platform,                                     the telecommunication footage,
one should not be afraid of smoking
habit herbs lie ad fixus should be brilliant to share the failure
Alcohol or Cherry Blossom
Blood Español, Entombing Women's Plagues
Total Flora Gloria Policy Center Frais et Poli,
mother and new programs against masked,
seismic or section protection,   the latest history of Jet-Water,
the Mary's Print Style service at night.   Do not forget, mix the printed ideas,
                                                                ­  the air bags and encourage the trial
and crime for love,    power and faces.
Take flight,                         but the new building is distributed in many
Arab cities on maps and in the United States.
Black and white iPhones; Alcohol and Robert
Robert Robert Luxembourg, American River
and Lake Muppet Ilorin,    American scientist
Sandy Closes, Robert Italy, Monday, white black old old French, John, George, George, George, George,
Barbie, Barbie, fatty acids all around

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