#Landscape With Fruit Rot And Millipede

[metamorphesque]

— Landscape with Fruit Rot and Millipede, Richard Siken

[text ID: I cut off my head and threw it in the sky. It turned / into birds. I called it thinking.]

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[malaisequotes]

“The life of the mind is a disappointment, but remember what stands for what. We deduce backwards into first causes—stone in the pond of things, splash splash—or we throw ourselves into the future.”

Landscape with Fruit Rot and Millipede by Richard Siken

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[typewriter-worries]

Landscape with Fruit Rot and Millipede, Richard Siken 

[ Text ID: What is a ghost? Something dead that seems to be / alive. Something dead that doesn’t know it’s / dead. ] 

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[moonmovement]

When you have nothing to say, set something on fire.

Richard Siken, Landscape with Fruit Rot and Millipede

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[faunary]

We do not walk through a passive / landscape. The paint dries eventually. The bodies / decompose eventually.

Richard Siken, “Landscape with Fruit Rot and Millipede,” War of the Foxes

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[milbydrive]

I cut off my head and threw it in the

sky. It turned

into birds. I called it thinking. The

view from above—

untethered scrutiny. It helps to have

an anchor

but your head is going somewhere

anyway. It's a matter

of willpower. O little birds, you

flap around and

make a mess of the milk-blue sky—all

these ghosts

come streaming down and sometimes I

wish I had

something else. A redemptive

imagination, for

example. The life of the mind is a

disappointment,

but remember what stands for what. We

deduce

backward into first causes—stone in

the pond of things,

splash splash—or we throw ourselves

into the future.

We all move forward anyway. Ripples

in all directions.

What is a ghost? Something dead that

seems to be

alive. Something dead that doesn't

know it's dead.

A painting, for instance. An

abstraction. Cut off your

head, kid. For all the good it'll do

ya. I glued my head back

on. All thoughts finish themselves

eventually. I wish

it were true. Paint all the men you

want but sooner or

later they go to ground and rot. The

mind fights the body and

the body fights the land. It wants

our bodies,

the landscape does, and everyone runs

the risk of

being swallowed up. Can we love

nature for what it

really is: predatory? We do not walk

through a passive

landscape. The paint dries

eventually. The bodies

decompose eventually. We collide with

place, which

is another name for God, and limp

away with a

permanent injury. Ask for a blessing?

You can try,

but we will not remain unscathed.

Flex your will

or abandon your will and let the

world have its way

with you, or disappear and save

everyone the bother

of a dark suit. Why live a life?

Well, why are you

asking? I put on my best shirt

because the painting

looked so bad. Color bleeds, so make

it work for you.

Gravity pulls, so make it work for

you. Rubbing

your feet at night or clutching

your stomach in the

morning. It was illegible—no single

line of sight,

too many angles of approach, smoke

in the distance.

It made no sense. When you have

nothing to say,

set something on fire.

A blurry landscape is useless.

—Landscape with Fruit Rot and Millipede, Richard Silken

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[sikenarthistory]

Richard Siken, [Man wearing a crown of burning fruit] from a series of AI generated pieces posted on his facebook page (2023) / Richard Siken, Landscape with Fruit Rot and Millipede (2015)

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[sourcedecay]

Richard siken gets it

#thinking abt landscape with fruit rot and millipede. one of the poems ever

[alulars]

"the mind fights the body and the body fights the land" johnson johnson johnson. the expelling, the begetting, the transference of violence and repulsion!!!

#i will never outgrow siken i owe him everything to be honest #and 'color bleeds so make it work for you. gravity pulls so make it work for you.' #that entire poem (landscape with fruit rot and millipede) is mostly so very johnson but it's more accurately such a fascinating #intermingling of johnson and lee #ooc #*johnson.

[ladyverdance]

backward into first causes—stone in the pond of things, splash splash—or we throw ourselves into the future. we all move forward anyway. ripples in all directions.

what is a ghost?

— landscape with fruit rot and millipede, by richard silken

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[emiliosandozsequence]

Landscape with Fruit Rot and Millipede   | Richard Siken

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[metamorphesque]

Landscape with Fruit Rot and Millipede (Richard Siken), Wheatfield with Crows (Vincent van Gogh)

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[malaisequotes]

“Paint all the men you want but sooner or later they go to ground and rot. The mind fights the body and the body fights the land. It wants our bodies, the landscape does, and everyone runs the risk of being swallowed up.”

Landscape with Fruit Rot and Millipede by Richard Siken

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[veloursdor]

Landscape with Fruit Rot and Millipede - Richard Siken Obi-Wan Kenobi Part III - Dir. Deborah Chow

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[moonmovement]

I wish I had something else. A redemptive imagination

Richard Siken, Landscape with Fruit Rot and Millipede

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[cogmented]

"we carve up the world all the time."

driving not washing, Richard Siken // Concerning Violence, Frantz Fanon // For the Time Being, Annie Dillard // Cutover, Jan Zita Grover // "Transportation Systems as Cultural Landscapes in National Parks: The Case of Yosemite.", Yolonda Youngs // "How I Made the World Obsidian", Roshambogames // Tropic of Orange, Karen Yamashita // Heaven and Earth in Jest, Annie Dillard // Ibid., Fanon // Ibid., Dillard // Leviticus 26:16 // Slaying the Beast, Claire Kim // Landscape with Fruit Rot and Millipedes, Siken // Ibid., Dillard // Still Life with Skulls and Bacon, Siken

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