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Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.


Here are the silos down in Salamanca again on a brisk autumn afternoon. I am sick of the sight of those silos, yet I keep taking photographs of them. That is the first sign of my debasement.

I need a good dose of revolutionary zeal. I need some consciousness raising. I need a stiff drink.

Here, have a poem from a younger version of me.
Dialectical Materialism #12

To inhale the feeling that radiated the room
was to breathe in visions of tropical beauty,
lazy days lying on beaches to taste an unknown
something that reached right down into my testicles.
Motionless in a darkened corner, my chance had come,
but alas, a strange fear gripped me and I could not.

I'd have liked to pay some service to your eyes;
a deep blue sea raging fiercely on the inside
as angels cluster around the blessed iris.
And yes I know that I'm the most useless being
to have ever walked on this earth. But you will
never know how much I wanted you. (I'll never say)

Comments

Keropokman said…
i know what you mean. you sometimes keep taking the photos of the eyesore. LOL...
Roddy said…
They are a little more photogenic than the original grey eyesores that they once were. Silos are silos, unless they are apartments. Keep up the picture taking as I enjoy them.
yamini said…
Come over to India, you will have so much more to photograph and we can enjoy the company of Henry, Ezra and Jen. Then You will not have to click the Silos anymore.
smudgeon said…
We have some empty silos waiting to be developed. Only issues I see are:

1. They're in Invermay - the Vic Bitter of Launceston Suburbs; and
2. They have views of Invermay (VB, etc) and the Tamar at low tide.

Apart from that, they're ripe for the developin'.
Kris McCracken said…
Keropok Man, I think that I am trying to find some beauty!
Kris McCracken said…
Roddy, they have done up some silos in Ballarat the same way.
Kris McCracken said…
Yamini, it’s just because they sit right at my front door at work.
Kris McCracken said…
Me, if they can do it in Ballarat, they can do it in Launceston! The only trouble is that Nick McKimm will insist on fifteen enquiries first before he actually comes out and opposes it (after opposing it all along)…
yamini said…
See, there u have another reason to run away from them...
Kris McCracken said…
Yamini, I will close my eyes when leaving work this arvo...

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