GR 'Streets'

Glenn Scheper glenn_scheper at earthlink.net
Thu Sep 18 09:52:15 CDT 2003


Resending a failed old post, part 2 of 2.
In the middle distance poplars just emerge out of the haze.
[poplar as penis; marks end of AS, resumption of AF imagery]

It could have been Semlower Strasse,
in Stralsund.

The windows have the same ravaged look:
the insides of all the rooms seem to've been gutted black.
[gut = intestines]

Perhaps there is a new bomb that can destory only the
insides of structures... no... it was in Greifswald.
[world of grief? the mise-en-bas, the katabasis of AF]

Across some wet railroad tracks were derricks,
[steel=ferrous=blood=feminine contrary?]
superstructure, tackle, smells of canalside...
Hafenstrasse in Greifswald,

down over his back
[to anus]
fell the cold
[opposite of oral fervent heat of AF]
shadow of some massive
[MEGA=great marks reflexive acts in Rev.]
church.
[ecclessia, called out, specifically, by AF]

But isn't that the Petritor,
[stone maker? whole as part; as in Imipolex G below;]
that stunted
[leaning toward anus]
brick tower-arch
[bent penis]
straddling the alleyway
[cleavage of buttocks]
ahead...

It could be the Slutterstrasse in the old part of Rostock...
or the Wandfarberstrasse in Luneburg,
with pulleys
[recalls Exupery's Le Petit Prince, which final 2 illustrations
have suggested to me bodily curves, 2 stars; absence of LPP in
final illustration suggesting to me the female AC parallelism]
high up on the brick gables,
[isomorphism requires pubes]
openwork weathercocks
[can't fool me: cock=cock]
up at the very peaks...
why was he looking upward?

Upward from any of a score of those northern streets,
one morning,
in the fog.

The farther norht,
the plainer things grow.

There's one gutter,
[anus]
down the middle of the alley,
[cleavage of buttocks]
where the rain runs off.
[semen; per clouds + AS]

Cobbles are laid straighter and
there aren't as many cigarettes
[cig=AF, a word that is sacrificed]
to be had.

Garrison-churches
[prison/war/what? AS variant of AF=church]
echo
[isomorphic with real echos, as of the word of AF]
with starlings
[birds are typical trope of AF; This incorporates star=anus.]

To come to a northern
[not the usual East-West, maybe the map's North=up expectation]
Zone town is to enter a strange harbor,
[so strange, that indexicals WHAT/WHERE are tied to the anus]
from the sea,
[from prior AF]
on a foggy day.
[as explained]

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I sure hope you won't boo me off stage before the next round....
 
Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
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