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Signifiers

Let’s do this right.
I had everything I ever wanted,
but nothing I really needed.
This beautiful mess is best ended without notification.

I had everything I ever wanted.
Nothing is a masterpiece.
This beautiful mess is best ended without notification.
Enough! Enough! Enough!

Nothing is a masterpiece.
I guess what you mean.
Enough! Enough! Enough!
Empty signifiers.

I guess what you mean.
But nothing I really need.
Empty signifiers.
Let’s do this right.

Shloka Shankar, 2016

Remixed works:

Quotes from films: The Romantics, One Fine Day, Leap Year
Provisional Language, by Kenneth Goldsmith
Song of Myself, by Walt Whitman

Awakening

I stood isolated,
u     n     r     e     e     l     i     n     g
in the summer of your love;

lost my will and reason,
tongue stuck in my jaw –
a mind with all its lights
put out. I have lived

like a foot, standing
and fallen. Vaguely,

life leaks away in my arms.
I hold your crooked heart,
lifeless in appearance, only
half-meaning to awaken.

Shloka Shankar, 2015

Remixed works:
The Old Playhouse, by Kamala Das
Daddy, by Sylvia Plath
Spring and All, by William Carlos Williams
Conversation, by Elizabeth Bishop
A Noiseless Patient Spider, by Walt Whitman
As I Walked Out One Evening, by W. H. Auden