Sir Lancelot is no
longer available for
interviews &/or photo
opportunities due to the
new set of contractual
obligations he's entered
into. From here on in
it's Murdoch & the
Morgans—J.P., le Fey—
you'll be crossing swords
with. From here on in
it's Getty & 20th Century
Fox for rights & royal-
ties. This image,
taken just before he
entered La Forêt de
Paimpont for a final
time, is the last left
in the public domain, a
reminder that chevalry
is not always chivalrous.
He felt happy & pain-free only
on stage, immersed in his music.
String Theory & the Geometry of
Hydroponic Strawberries. Listen
to, download, play & stream the
song. The elders only smile sadly.
I've bought eight t-shirts from
this guy. Californian worshippers
chose blindfolds. There is scepticism
in the mainstream media. Luxury
limousines drove up the stairs.
I have his posters on my wall. Will
he be able to go back to the boy
band life? Don’t forget to watch A
Thousand Kisses, Episode 37. In the
blank space alongside the photograph,
an anonymous letter-writer had
scribbled a shocking & hate-filled
message. Does it bother you that
tennis doesn't get that kind of adulation?
Now that reality shows
have developed some
sort of deep metaphysical
connection with live-action
games where players
dress up in costume &
get involved in areas
derived from the Greek
like weapon trajectory
calculations & image
processing, renting
Camelot on DVD &
singing along with it
just doesn't register
any more. The competition
to narrow down the
pool is heating up—
not the contestant pool
but the wannabe guest
judges all dressed
up & running behind
the circus trucks.
When run through any
Icelandic-English
translation app, the
atomic hypothesis &
its concept of cloud comes
out resembling a gothic
horror screen-play. No
consideration for classical
theory. No sensitivity
toward sociological
phenomena. Persons
under the age of 18 are
included only if they
play in a marching band
or Drum & Bugle Corps.
A microchip im-
plant is placed
under the skin.
Nicotine patches
are spread upon
it. A free hand
selection tool that
includes an inter-
active game is
used to specify
the region of inter-
est. Whether that
be the mechanics
of water or the
flow of mythology
begin by drawing
a circular object
on your canvas.
No-one questions the
usefulness of having
a power generator
around the house. A-
pocalypse obsession
goes back a long way,
& any highly-descriptive
formalism with reasoning
features is convenient for
developing an ontology
of practical steps to re-
store humanity. It becomes
what the world offers it.
Little bits of coloured glass.
Or. Walking the sweltering
streets of Manhattan naked.
La vache quit rit
& les lapins
qui jouent des
tambours have
little in common
except that Magritte
called this his
vache period &
painted lots of
rabbits—& other
animals—during it.
But, there goes the
neighborhood now
that musicians
have moved in next
door, & everybody
knows, as Leonard
Cohen reminds us,
that musicians fuck
like . . . well, like
rabbits. So, pom 'po,
paradiddle. Pom 'po,
paradise lost. Pon
po pon pon paradox.
My grandfather was
a technician for Ma
Bell. He said, "We are
complacent in our
color attributions. The
only way to receive a
signal is to eliminate the
noise. There are no co-
incidences, merely portals."
Without this inter-
vening presence
of a sudden &
aggressive getaway
with some significant
other to that highly
recommended place
to karaoke, then it's
essentially a bucolic
image, even if no
sheep, no alpacas,
no fertility-symbols,
no Lacoste alligators
mingling with angels
holding dynamite, no
animated cuddly lions,
no eggs or rabbits, no
Japanese women,
no cameo appearance
from Don Quixote.
Drained of context,
of creative market
mechanisms &
public policy, the
interior surface of
the shell is contoured.
Perhaps an actor sits
there knitting. The
mechanical, despite
its notion of longevity,
is just the biological
on a shorter rope—
banality was never
intended for posterity.
History is historical
romance, politics is
science fiction, to
quote Foucault. Work-
place romance
is a local construct.
