Ruins of Eternity

Literature

Oct 2

Written By Joan de la Kagsawa

Poem of black text on white background. Excerpt reads: "We are beasts of no wilderness. Each footstep of our searching for some unknown silence greater than this body to worship...".

Poem of black text on white background. Excerpt reads: "And here, an elegy for the ruins of Kagsawa: I would rather perish in the claws of memory than let fate deny me my immortality.".

Poem of black text on white background. With one small block on either side. Excerpt reads: "I hear the tolling of the bells. I hear them weep for their creator. Let the stones bury me, skull to skull, skin to skin.".

Poem of black text in blocks, arranged in a grid on a white background. Excerpt of one block reads: "Oh light rail! Oh bedroom Led lights! Oh throbbing Street crossing bell! Oh 5 O'clock iPhone alarm!"

Poem of black text on white background. Excerpt reads: "And to think, truly, that language was born in the ruins of the Tower of Babel. In the ruins of humanity's first unified gesture toward God.".

2 lines of black text on a white page at the top left, reading: "Is the death of all language.".

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Joan de la Kagsawa

Mixing RED with black: the death of the art movement is the only given

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