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| 来源： | ccMixter 前往原页面 查看译文 |
| 作者： | Speck |
| 许可： | CC-BY-NC 非商业署名许可协议 |
| 描述： | Backing track played in Reason6, all stems uploaded. watching my blind cat narla walks past the lounge room window in winter sun as Iâm trying to finish a short story feline fluidity now a disconnected concatenation of tentative movements her nose is her new eyes but she misjudges jerks backwards at every sniff the lawn is a featureless wasteland she zigzags in slowmotion the same ground she once covered like an arrow. wends her way to the fishpond bumping blinking into branches. visions of blindness. that night in the shack on hindmarsh island coming back from the toilet to the bedroom in the nomoon dark fixed action patterns of habit retracing steps headbutting strange walls a rat in a maze, cornered until i realise iâm in the wrong room. the blind man at the bus stop. watching him through the restaurant window coins falling to footpath probing the dirty concrete with the backs of his hands. the fish need not fear. my blind catâs come to lap their universe. what is to be done with this decrepitude? is it kinder to end her life? or must we all accept weâre past our prime i remember my grandfather watching in awe at boyish surefootedness as i rockhop barefoot over the breakwater, his awe a discarnate nostalgia for musclememory. narla takes one step down from the pondâs rim she extends her nose several times indecisively pussyfoots air makes contact with the ground. my fatherâs last month in the nursing home. his last chapter. we had all peeked at the last page. watching him, sharp acuity dulled, pale ghost of his onceself. itâs kinder on the birds the mice the insects sheâll no longer present to me on the coirmat platter. completely harmless. her mercury motion solidified and leaden. she crawls into the watery sun and sleeps as well as she ever did. leaves the decision to me. text © rob walker 2012 First published on The Cortland Review, Feb, 2012 http://cortlandreview.com/i... |
| 标签： | electronic spoken_word |
| 音频格式 | mp3 |
| 声音时长 | 04:27 |
| 文件大小 | 8.16 MB |
| 比特率 | 256 kbps |
| 采样率 | 48000 Hz |
| 声道 | 立体声 |