The revolution is not so much on pause, as riven by incertitude.
The click track - you may have observed - has fallen foul of synchronization: Stalling; Steiner, and Bradley. As unreliable as Ukrainian trains. Between Kiev and October.
Burrowing under creaking autonomous sod. Moles. Metro gnomes. Travelling in fits and starts; co-opted SMPTE time.
1/4; 1/8; 1/16.
Incremental decrepitude.
A tree leaning into the broken tooth of a circular saw, filmed for posterity in crackling stop motion.
June 1883. The Chautauquan.
"Sound is the sensation excited in the ear when the air or other medium is set in motion."
Naked science.
An old African proverb tackles the nature of suddenly uprooted trees with telling prescience:
"Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped."
By extension, keep one foot in front of the other. And don't forget to tie your shoelaces. When not dancing barefoot; or broadcasting 'Radio Ethiopia' before a lolling wave.
Lumberjacking; sawdust traumas; pissing in the river in a force nine gale.
Of course. Mixing metaphors is similarly as perilous, mixing metaphors while mixing one's drinks - injecting intravenously - an ill-advised taboo.
It was not Bill Burroughs who remarked "If we can hit that bullseye then the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards..." but Zapp Brannigan.
Zip gun boogie. Billy West. East. North and South.
"Checkmate". I digress.
The revolution is not so much on pause, as low on ammunition.
One month blurs into another as camel charges in Cairo's Tahir Square give way to rocket salvos over Bin Jawwad; the waters recede in Fukushima to expose fuel rods in meltdown.
Cesium-137. Iodine-121.
Tsunamis. Turbulence in Syria.
A changing of the guard on the road to Damascus.
Four horsemen on overtime. Double time. A plague of Sundays.
Somewhere between one month and the next, the bleachers fell into disrepair. The fiddles went quiet.
The ferryman sailed by, empty-handed. Lantern-jawed. Granite sprung.
The emails gathering one on top of the other like so many dessicated leaves.
Well. I have lost the will to rake the ashes. I began one post and could not see an end to it. The music is of saws and knives. Scraping knotted bone.
Paul of Tarsus can keep his fine opinions to himself.
