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The Switch
About this book
Exciting in its taut energy and inventive comedy, Murray Edmond's
The Switch is a long poem in forty-nine parts which proceeds, not in a straight line, but in a dazzling display of repetitions, rearrangements and transformations. It's a game, a show, an entertainment and a meditation about love and the passage of time.
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Information
Topic
LittératureSubtopic
Poésie1
Trouble with love
is its subject
matter
slap slap
it into shape
like a mirror
on a string
(the one the cat
plays with
on the bathroom door
cuff cuff)
it catches light
facetiously:
my best shot
never fails
to fall short —
a world full of
character actors
is preferred —
are you writing a poem?
yes but interrupt me —
to a world
full of stars
slap cuff slap
2
she’s not to be trusted
rhubarb rhubarb
careful what you say to her
I wouldn’t tell her
psst psst
what you tell me
she’s been pumping me
to tell her about you
twist twist
virago
fandango
so the sick self steps
such quick self love
two to too tango
I can’t stop loving you
though you two time
like that double-eyed
drunken moon
brouhaha
stomp stomp
Ray Charles
romance
representation
the three r’s
rhubarb rhubarb
rhubarb
3
put yourself
in my position
as the Yoga Teacher
said to the Bishop
when you get
those squeaks in the high
register play right
on through them
honk honk
let yourself be
played by me
as the piano said
to the Zen Master
oh body why
are you so brainy
who steps before you
think without straining
gthunk
4
every night we have
a cow it makes us
glow with slip slap
between each one a one
to part the other’s
gone and got it back slap
the whole would not
make you weep unless
you add slip slap slop
a something something
naught the figure of
a self at loss alas
some touch of it’s
come back to gloat
and curl its lip alas
5
When I return again
you’ll have a grand
old story to tell
one old self song
two sick self songs
three love’s old suck sings
another man done gone
don’t you do it to me
don’t you do it to don’t
you do it don’t you
graffiti your socks
kick away your chocks
is as it is as it is
6
down on your cheek
down on your luck
the down stroke
down...
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- For Scott
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
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- 11
- 12
- 13
- 14
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- 49
- Back Cover