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YOUR OWN PLEASURE (Other) by Zoe
A pleasure whose origin is to be placed outside us and in objects whose
presence we cannot be sure of; a pleasure therefore that is precarious
in itself, undermined by the fear of loss.
âMichel Foucault
I search for you in the city
I search for you in the city,
scan each face I pass, note each tree
scan each face I pass, note each tree.
I scan for you in the pass, note each city;
I search each face in the tree.
The bright shop window youâll see,
the bright shop window youâll see
with her: itâs strange that youâre so close
with her: itâs strange that youâre so close
The bright, her window; strange that youâll close
with its shop: see that youâre so.
When it grows dark: the streets
when it grows dark; the streets
are a mass of bodies, lights and cars
are a mass of bodies lights and cars.
When the bodies a-mass, dark cars
are it: the streets of grows and lights.
You exist somewhere without;
you exist somewhere without
me in the heaving mess:
me in the heaving mess.
Me somewhere. Exist heaving.
You in the mess without.
I stop to buy a newspaper;
I stop to buy a newspaper.
Long columns of words remind me;
long columns of words remind me.
Me? I long to column a newspaper,
stop to remind: buy of words.
Long, striped fields outside Vienna,
long striped fields outside Vienna;
seen when I flew home early,
seen when I flew home early.
Long seen fields when Vienna flew;
I striped home (outside early).
You were to follow, but thenâ
you were to follow, but then
like now, something snapped inside me:
like now, something snapped inside me.
You follow now to inside, like me,
but then you were something snapped.
I foresee you alone:
I foresaw you. Strange that youâll close
seeing field, word, light;
heaving field, word, light.
Long seen words snap alone:
I am the fields that you light.
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