Thursday, January 15, 2015

A Dialogue is a Monologue of Two

A Dialogue is a Monologue of Two

"There are things in me which cannot be denoted - I am a floating cork on a sea of undetermined signifieds, a token with no type."

"Sir, what are you talking about? I have you all figured out. You're like an open book to me."

"No. I stand here in front of you, and as you trace the contours of my thoughts, I erase them. You cannot, nobody can. Not even I can. When I go about tracing those lines, I follow myself and erase those very lines."

"No. There is right and there is wrong. You cannot erase that line. There is a limit... yeah a line that cannot be trespassed."

"In all sincerity you are the player within the play who isn't even conscious he is a player. Moving on the stage of your memories, of your comforts, your days are spent in doing, saying, looking, staring even, yea gazing. You are both Holbein's Ambassadors and the anamorphotic skull in the middle of your being."

"There are things to be done. Things to be said."

"No. There are eyes to be probed, palms to be held in religious respect and kissed, there is the grammar of the universe to be sketched, there are tiny footprints on the sand to be followed all the way into a sea of unpronounced words. There are dreams to be grabbed, and moments to be lost. Parents to be disrespected. And there is your solitude to be tasted in all its bitterness - I banish you, banish you out of you, banish you into you, bsnish you from you."

"As I cry, allow me to embrace this dialogue, allow me to caress the light of your tribulation. Allow me."

"Voca me cum benedictis."

"Amen"

Friday, January 2, 2015

העושה והמעשה

לישב בסוכה שהיא אני
להיות סכך ודופן.
ערבה,
הדס
ולולב.
פרי עץ הדר, אינו אני.

מתפלל ממני אליי,
ומתעטף בעצמי,
מניח את קולי על כולי.
עיטור של ראש.

להיות ראש
בית של ראש
להיות יד
בית של יד.

סידור נפער לפניי.
אני קורא
ונקרא
שני פני החברותא
מביטים זה בזה
מְסַפֵּר וסיפור
אב ובן
אני ואנוכי.

קרוב אני לכל קוראיי
בכל עת אשר שאקרא
אשר אקרא באמת.
האשמע את שוועתי?

גברא אוחז בחפצא
לבד ובעל כורחי
מניח את עצמי על ידי
כובל ברצועת העור סביב עצמי

ומביט בעצמי במראה.

יעקב מאשיטי, 28.7.14