focus
*puff*
clear-minded
i run as fast as i can
i can’t run very fast
but
quite fast
for some time
and then i start to run less fast
sometimes i end up thinking about something
when i’m running
and an idea pops up from somewhere or something
now i’m thinking
i quote
“i would like to have a job
to be able to quit”
end of quote
running is difficult after running
but waiting is harder
for me personally
i’m probably a hard waiter
i stand in a queue for hours and hours and minutes and seconds
i chat n cut
for couple of times
with a couple of couples
an american couple and another couple
what if larry david directed ’kids’
and finally slip in
a glass of piper
i prefer my heidsieck without piper tho
and with charles
i miss charles
in these situations
i believe in the glass
it’s liquid
it guides me through this
i usually don’t follow
but this
tonight i’m guided like a cinderella
make a toast when hungry
solid minerals when dehydrated
yellow fruit, ripe citrus, butter
party when too busy
read a book when i should work
read to a book when everybody thinks i’m reading a book
google haute couture when broke
sheer carnage at night
a fall
and a wreck
like a flower
flowers look like they have been something else before but now they are destroyed
i find a hand in my pocket
oh boy
pocket’s upside down
like a flower
i scroll through the lint
search for keys
sing a note
open
easter egger
spring roller
party platter
utterly stuffed
tummy hurts
and bubble under
filled with tiny insects
winter truffle and mercury
when diving
how can you drive a car slowly?
from empty basketball courts at night
you still can hear the ghosts
to a bar after the opening
maybe a taxi
it’s a bog night
overdrive
distortion
accidentally end up home
or
default
an sich
factory presets they make me happy
material flow of time
i walk the red carpet
i bloom
the carpet takes me out of the city
accepting
as is
is participating
or sorts i guess
i fall down
or shrink
focus beans
is that in the corner
is this in the corner
i wiggle and turn
and find my way through the bushes
in the clear now
some artifacts around
scattered
here and there
dust, body parts, maybe mine
but not distracted by
bye
by Antti-Juhani Manninen
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Antti-Juhani Manninen on kirjoittanut tekstin vierailtuaan Lucinda Dayhew’n näyttelyssä It’s All Fun and Games Until Someone Loses an Eye. Lue lisää näyttelystä: https://www.titanik.fi/lucinda-dayhew/.
Teksti on seitsemäs osa tämän vuoden TITANIK julkaisua, joka toteutetaan uudessa muodossa. Kokeellisia kirjoittajia pyydetään tuottamaan teksti, joka resonoi kunkin näyttelyn kanssa. Tekstit julkaistaan näyttelyn aikana Titanikin nettisivuilla ja koottuna vuoden lopussa painettavana kirjasena. Sarjan aiemmat, Taneli Viljasen, Anna Tahkolan, Hanna Stormin, Antti-Juhani Mannisen, Virpi Vairisen ja Camille Auerin tekstit löytyvät täältä: https://www.titanik.fi/eleita-eroja-olentoja-liueta/, https://www.titanik.fi/jotkut-paikat-rakennetaan-raunioiksi/, https://www.titanik.fi/han-ei-kerro-asioistaan/, https://www.titanik.fi/jatan-pyorani-telineeseen/, https://www.titanik.fi/cadavre-exquis-teksti/ ja https://www.titanik.fi/5-6-11-1-16-17-7-14-3-12/.
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Antti-Juhani Manninen wrote the text after visiting It’s All Fun and Games Until Someone Loses an Eye exhibition by Lucinda Dayhew. For more info visit https://www.titanik.fi/lucinda-dayhew/.
TITANIK publication is finding a new form this year. Authors working with various forms of experimental writing are invited to produce a text responding to each exhibition. The contributions will be published on the website during the show, and later on as a booklet. This text by Antti-Juhani Manninen is the seventh contribution to the series. The previous contributions written by Taneli Viljanen, Anna Tahkola, Hanna Storm, Antti-Juhani Manninen, Virpi Vairinen, and Camille Auer can be read here: https://www.titanik.fi/eleita-eroja-olentoja-liueta/, https://www.titanik.fi/jotkut-paikat-rakennetaan-raunioiksi/, https://www.titanik.fi/han-ei-kerro-asioistaan/, https://www.titanik.fi/jatan-pyorani-telineeseen/, https://www.titanik.fi/cadavre-exquis-teksti/, and https://www.titanik.fi/5-6-11-1-16-17-7-14-3-12/.
