6.12.13

Anne Boyer




a form of sabotage

a form of sabotage in which you follow the book of rules exactly
a form of sabotage in which you will not print a word that is not the truth

a form of sabotage in which you open your mouth
a form of sabotage in which you shut it
a form of sabotage in which you repeat back only what you are told you should say aloud
a form of sabotage in which you say only what is said to you
a form of sabotage in which you say only what is said to you but never in so many words

a form of sabotage in which you adulterate the adulterated
a form of sabotage in which you adulterate something else
a form of sabotage in which you adulterate love, beauty, and springtime
a form of sabotage in which you adulterate critical theory, experimental literature, and the radical left
a form of sabotage in which you adulterate the german philosophers
a form of sabotage in which you adulterate the french poets
a form of sabotage in which you adulterate the lowest floating clouds

a form of sabotage in which you know you are the worker who makes herself as a product
a form of sabotage in which you know you are the content provider who provides herself as content
a form of sabotage in which you know you are the silk which dissolves in its folds
a form of sabotage in which you are the silk kept as strong as silk
a form of sabotage in which you are the gutter 
a form of sabotage in which you refuse to be silk or the gutter at all 

a form of sabotage in which you make the sharpest thing when they want the softest
a form of sabotage in which you make the kindest thing when they want the meanest
a form of sabotage in which you make the innocent thing when they want the ruthless
a form of sabotage in which you make the decorous thing when they want the useful
a form of sabotage in which you are boring 
a form of sabotage in which you are stupid
a form of sabotage in which you make the ugly thing, and the ugly thing, and the ugly thing 

a form of sabotage in which you make a material thing when they want an immaterial one
a form of sabotage in which you make an immaterial thing when they want a material one 
a form of sabotage in which you make the most perfect thing 

a form of sabotage in which you keep a full account  
a form of sabotage in which you have retained all the information 
a form of sabotage which is always your perfection
a form of sabotage which is the best job ever
a form of sabotage which is the level of contrition 
a form of sabotage in which you have merely forgot

a form of sabotage in which you will be precisely as they made you
a form of sabotage where you will offer a clear view of what is done to you
a form of sabotage in which you will not tell anyone the story
a form of sabotage in which you refuse to be a dialectician
a form of sabotage in which you are an eagle
a form of sabotage in which you are a tiger 
a form of sabotage in which you are already dead 

a form of sabotage in which you will not be lovers
a form of sabotage in which you will always be lovers
a form of sabotage in which there is no relation not of lovers
a form of sabotage in which I will always kiss you
a form of sabotage in which I will never kiss 

a form of sabotage in which you will not make slaves, not of yourselves or of your children
a form of sabotage in which you have weaponized your body
a form of sabotage in which you have weaponized your children’s bodies
a form of sabotage in which you have weaponized your jpegs
a form of sabotage in which you have weaponized your emails
a form of sabotage in which you have weaponized your books, chapbooks, magazines, journals, zines, communiques, and archives  
a form of sabotage in which you have weaponized your pdfs

and in your weaponized pdfs, the slow corroding of the tin can tinged with silk of the body of the silk-slaves which you have made from yourselves, of love then and the slow corroding, of the gutter then and all of the bodies who are lovers who did not know that they were lovers who are silent or saying everything who are not aleatory who are eagles who are no dialecticians who are already dead