smooth space
in verse geo metry on nablus
~ tri
angul ate directional fo rce
w regard to control again st
trails o f missiles launched
to seek ffreedom for who & to what
power flows interpretation
also is fire mountain
force a reorgan isation
of the ur ban syntax
masks latent
arithmetic explosives not so
latent not so arithmetic now
but you have to adm
it was a powerful argument
GO SMOOTH OUT YOUR OWN SPACE colony
no wait,
your out own go space
smoothly
as humans inter mingle with worms
and your quaint honour turn to dust
can order
disrupt itself in its favour?
when refusal to obey is
operative as command ruthless critique
in service of coercion
all manoeuvres are fascist poetry
“this building is under occupation”
we yelled it
penetrating new boundaries in people's homes
not inherently not not divisive
fall into traps not
to be abstract violence but concretely
abstract ion of the living world
is
violence already travel through crumbling
walls of bodies only tenderly with your theories
words-links: “reorganisation of the urban syntax” from “The art of war: Deleuze, Guattari, Debord and the Israeli defence force” by Eyal Weizman.
Joey Frances is based in Manchester. He is a member of Generic Greeting, a multi-disciplinary arts collective with whom he has collaborated on zines, posters, exhibitions and other events. He also co-organises the reading series Peter Barlow’s Cigarette. His first full collection, a l’instar de, was published this year with Knives Fork and Spoons Press. He will shortly begin a PhD on contemporary innovative poetry and ideological resistance. Find him at bubblethesedatasets.tumblr.com // genericgreeting.co.uk // twitter @JoeyFrances
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