I used to make conceptual art in the form of poetry. Or vice versa. Versa vice. poetry in the form of conceptual art.
Then I stopped and just became myself reveling in the poetry of self.
Boring?
Let's get back to it, seeing ourselves through others. Let's start with a series of found poems from TV:
Found poems from streaming series.
Palm Royale ep. 1.
Kristin Wiig as Maxine Simmons:
"Try, Maxine!"
All I do is try.
All I ever wanted was to belong
to be a somebody in this world
But there's a catch
when someone wants
to be a someone in this world.
And that catch is:
Everybody else.
***
Andor ep. 10
Stellan Skarsgard as Luthen:
I’ve given up all chance at inner peace
I made my mind a sunless place
I share my dreams with ghosts
I wake up every day to an equation I wrote 15 years ago, from which there’s only one conclusion
I’m damned for what I do
My anger, my ego, my unwillingness to yield, my eagerness to fight
They’ve set me on a path from which there is no escape
I yearned to be a savior against injustice without contemplating the cost and by the time I looked down, there was no longer any ground beneath my feet
I burn my life to make a sunrise that I know I’ll never see.
***
Andor ep. 10
Andy Serkis as Kino Loy:
Wherever you are right now,
get up
stop the work
get out of your cells
take charge
and start climbing!
You need to help each other.
You see someone who's confused,
someone who is lost,
you get them moving
and you keep them moving
until we put this place behind us.
If we can fight half as hard
as we've been working,
we will be home in no time.
One way out! One way out! One way out!"'
