Composition

 

Mario Fallani , 'Composizione' (1959)

[Composition] 

“viewing mario fallani no. 5”

 

composition was set in school

the topic a choice, the one rule

-         tell me about it

 

silence is golden

poetry more lasting than bronze

-         explain using examples

 

less is more

more or less

-         illustrate with non sequiturs

 

climate deniers exist

warmongers prosper

-         tell me something I don’t know

 

all machines are liars

I am a machine

-         use adverbs sparingly

 

ponder extinction find evidence

organise your argument

-         you’re not alone

 

small is beautiful

beauty is in the eye of the reader

-         keep expression clear

 

all I do all day is edit edit edit

revise revise revise

-         tell me about it

 

always the sun sets

below the ocean behind our city

-         oh really, tell me more

 

 

Composition (December)

[Seven of seven in B&W] Body comes out that way, out of the body. We’ve no say in it. Hungry from the first, thirst for water, always more water. Stand in the street, weave across a field, body a survivor midst natural colours. What we could do without a body: nothing. Body goes that way then this way. December is delirious a month, a drug, dreams come true. Others take photographs to pass time, or the pain. It’s like watching  shadow draw. It never ends, extending and withdrawing given the light of day. What we could do without photographs: anything.