Texas Fontanella
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self-inflicted
targets
aim
to impose articificial strain
on
every turn
cut
out
the
class
error, when the state
“triple lock”
austerity.
slip further
in
to
the
piano,
the one
centre stage
coughing audience members
out
in both hands, criss-
crossing
light and dancing
fingers faster than
the keys
rumbling, sour arpeggio
his
hum
his
burst about
musical ghosting a major pre-
occupation
of Debussy, Bach, or Glass
the thread of what he
have
now,
If you try too hard
edging thoughts
too unpompous
to mention
the
n ever
forward
depends-how-you-look-at-it
such a positive message!
searching for this empowerment
and the whole
anti-posturing super-
aware of
dashes
phone calls and
love.
tac how proud
our poses and masks (so
deified by media
out there
grow,
take control;
and,
from these two,
doubt
whether pen
or typewriter
crank it up
save my eyes
on the desktop
no images”)
stimulants
his (related)
vicarious
breakdown of
the
texts
the crucial detail) and
the how-to
fail
dillettantism tha
undermines his claims to critical authority,
so his arguments don’t quite land
books lack emo-
tion
up-close observation,
prose
the meaning
audible.
is one of
conception.
the necessary words
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