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Alexander Borojevic: we burn the dictionary

Alexander Borojevic

Jun 29 2019

1 mins

we burn the dictionary

 

use my words

like childish photography

 

place them high on your wall

 

and from the floor

watch the characters collaborate

expand like pregnant rays

a billion lives in your periphery

 

building constellations for your roof frame

 

resist the urge to touch your favourite phrase

 

and in three hours

my voice will carry through

and immolate verb heavens

around you

 

flaking in flames from the highest tree

dropping remnants of new names

 

pick them up

and make melodies from them

experiment like its secret

fold them through your hair and my love complex

swallow them if you please

start again

 

our new dictionary is digestible

Alexander Borojevic

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