Insomnia in Four Parts (with Amnesia)

Insomnia in Four Parts (with Amnesia)

A Poem by Brett Hernan
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I am not completely certain that I can either claim ownership of, or the responsibility for the actual writing of this. No one else will ever claim it, though.

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I



10:36

Vodafone network

Sub: Eastchessboard315

April 17

.09.6x-2656-

The thing I like the best

about the writing of words

upon a page of ideas is that I have

as a guarantee that there will be

very little sound and only silence

made by the words.

And that

is something

you cannot project!

projection of a jarred sprocket

of those really yummy red jam lolly

crème scented short bread disks

In some improvised silence

to communicate

Lace unimagined

pageant or pantomime

In the most thoroughest sense of blue

e-velvet fashion trends

If you kill someone you

become popular

have you noticed?

They write books about...

one guy ignored it

So his friend could tell him

what it was ‘like’

In the sense that people stutter

“Like... uh... like...”

‘N' that

sense that

stutters people

Like

was it what

him

tell

so could his friend

could tell him

one

has concentrated on something

(a technological development)

whilst the other belated it

a cat in the back

alley

whiskering

an empty tin

if you’re someone,

someone not known,

you’re just 'the victim'

it’s looking down

the center

of someone’s face

in no

uncertain

terms

GLOWING LETTERS FOR KEYBOARDS

May not be the end of it

But there’d have to be

a certain amount of public notoriety involved

which would most entirely disseminate information

up to and over an extended fifty year period after which

it was to be vaulted, cold chisel beveled ‘A’.

A fragment

All,

incomprehensibly,

improbably (of this,

with no intensive purpose,

because,

as really...

Machines now tell us.)



II




If the marked words are an incomplete thought,

consider developing this thought

into a complete sentence by adding

a subject

or a verb

Beveled 'A;

or combining this text with another sentence. Instead:

Because the teacher said to.

Consider: We watched meteors.

Instead of the entire night.

Consider: you have to,

because the teacher said so.

A place from which
it might trace out of its hole
lines of darkness that had connected.

By misfortune of technology that had seen

supersedence

I would have wondered about

what made aware

really meant

Bait

that was yet another conversation

round the biscuit barrel;

And the death of those who would seek

that each of the goods used upon earth

(such as machinery and other

domestically produced and utilized instruments

of the contemporary age), each of which are

an example of the most well-developed

and expertly designed as the finest example

of the contemporary

Might have resulted

in having been manufactured

one penultimate model of everything

That was designed to be repairable

ad infinitum

Correct answer may be impossibly difficult.

It's ‘Loqua’

Unassuming what you consider

grotesque

The entire flavor of all sugar

at any one place

Precious, to awaken skin



III




The five year old thought

The travesty

of what Adolf Hitler did

was not only to inject

with no antidote

horror but to also have tattooed

a figure

for whom

for all of us

it would have been

a far better idea

that we’d all agree

was that he was someone

that we’d all have been better off

to agree

we’d pretend

never existed

at all

since

knowing that one man

was capable of those evils

just informed everyone else

that what he did

was possible.



IV


And the death of those

who would seek

that each of the goods

used upon earth

such as machinery

and other

domestically produced

and utilized instruments

of the contemporary age,

each of which are an example

of the most well developed

and expertly designed

as the finest

example of the contemporary

could have occurred when

one penultimate

model of everything

might have been made

That was designed

to be repairable ad infinitum

It's ‘Loqua’

Unassuming

what you consider

grotesque

The entire flavor of all sugar

at any one place

Precious,

to awaken skin

© 2017 Brett Hernan


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Brett Hernan
Brett Hernan

Hobart, Tasmania, Australia



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Low-resolution sample only. Born 1968. All of the images accompanying each of these written works are my own. (Except that one of the guy putting a flower into a soldier's rifle barrel!) more..

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