Matthew Conrad

May 15, 1986 - Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski
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the Droste Effect

ask me: i'm a sucker for pop music and medieval hymns, whether folk or of a gratitude toward a community akin to Taizé... while society suffocates me with jester's pounces to satiate a coming bride.. i'm more inclined to satiated myself with monkish escapades... i am aware of the "existential" absolute negotiation: to preserve the upright specimen... i'm pretty sure the chinese, the african and the indian sub-continent have it covered, i'm happy to be part of the dodo project... clearly i don't want to be part of it... i should have been allowed to be a monk, with each day passing i'm hardly thinking of the petty conquests of a bedroom with a... come on... even i thought this brief relationship could resemble a brothel's "one hour spare"... Tamara... spanish girl, worked in a barber shop... lived with three homosexual hunks... i tried having a hard-on, even when she told me to have a bath with her and talk... i couldn't get it up, i was put off when she wanted a kleenex moment, sex, incubated, under the bedsheets... in a brothel you fuck under dimmed lights but not in a womb of cotton! you shower first, sometimes even washing each other, there's this whole unwritten ritual! she puts on a condom while she sucks you off... come on... aaesthetic, cordiality... prostitutes have been the most respectful women i've ever fucked, it's like joining an army of marching dildos... in a pink floyd revision of marching hammers... imagine... the neo-communist flag: dildo replaces the hammer... the sickle? scissors, i guess, borrowing from scissor sisters? dildo & scissors? great! we have ourselves the new soviet, ahem, soviet union... and a flag to boot! oh Tamara Tamara... sure, no hard-on... drunk one-night stand cameo... i tried and tried, but i kept suffocating under the bed-sheets cocoon sex... she broke with me after 3 days because the hard-on wasn't coming... god, i too wish i could be the perfect dildo with a heart, kidneys, liver stomach and brain to match: ON / OFF... isn't a male erection akin to a slobbering oyster of a woman's vulva? dick impressions... kama sutra speaks about elephant phallus and a rabbit's vagina (depth)... i can't just switch it on, & off... it's not a fucking cunt-pumping-piston worthy of masturbation web-cam incel jerk-off worth of video, is it?! never mind... i was having coffee in the morning between her inquiring gay-minders (she suddenly left of Ibiza to find love)... i was saved by a presence of a robin... and you know what a fictional Napoleon would have said: a robin is worth twice the sparrow's worth... timid foot, tender foot... shy organge loiter... who... for some strange reason, migrastes to eastern europe for winter, then migrates to england during the summer... i guess: continental europe provides the sort of winters that are summers, while england provides the sort of summers that are winters... the mythology of Poland... storks and bisons... on a whiff... teenage gamer... but the storyline still grips me: soul reaver:
protagonist: Raziel...
the brothers:
Melchiah, Zephon, Rahab and Dumah...
games what worked as book-alt.,
i'm almost itching to add diacritical
marks to those names to "x-ray" into syllables
and hyphens...
mind you, what has remained of the old
anglo-ßaß?
names in chemistry... already, mentioned,
somewhere...
sure... gaming is fun these days,
given the in-game cash-in handicap...
from Kazakh, Ukraine, China of the rich...
etc.,
these internet-based non-NPC games...
they're great for non NPC non-a.i. characters,
i.e. the old games had... not so much NPC...
but s.i.: synthetic intelligence...
it wasn't artificial as it wasn't analytical
intelligence, it was a fixed intelligence
of the "opponent" / i.e. narrative...
modern gaming can only be spectated...
on the evolutionary "debate"
when you: only purchased a PS1 and didn't
buy any console after...
as if "waiting" for the internet to catch up
to the grid... where you could play games live...
imagine a game...
like the old narrative games...
but where the "opponent", i.e. the narrative
learns from your first encounter...
long gone would be the encounters
with NPC in the old school standard of
synthetic intelligence, synthetic implying:
repetition, nothing being new...
if the NPS characters could be given
analytical intelligence parameters...
you could reinvent the old model of games...
away from the internet FREE...
but, really: you're playing with a handicap
against people who have made in-game
purchases... hell... once a game cost 20 quid...
and it might last you three weeks' solid
of weekend gameplay in the early morning
on a saturday... in bed...
i'm not really a gamer...
well if i'm the shitter, the throne of thrones
i'm a gamer: just like some people
are thinkers on the shitter reading books...
but the old "solipsist" gamer is long gone...
the one who played to construct
a complex cognitive narrative...
i'll repeat the mention...
i once told a "friend" about playing sims...
he was so engaged in the game,
built this, built that...
i told him i freaked out when i moved
my sim to play a game on the computer...
hence finding the illuminating
wormhole of the Droste Effect...
i stopped playing...
final fantasy VII?
only with a walkthrough...
homework and shit...
going to the mall on saturday
with the misfits...
running up tier carparks and then aiming
with saliva on people walking in...
talking to hare krishna converts...
about Dave Lombardo's insane drumming...
ilford: early 21st century...

cut off... a second poem:

.poland played israel in a soccer match today, the hymns began, first came the israeli hymn... boos and whistling, at first... but then i heard casimir III hush the crowd.... lucky for me not being in warsaw... the crowd silenced their illogical anti-semitism, the choir sang, libera me domine... i cannot fathom the russian purges, or the germanic dislike of these people.... casimir III's hush... i look at the cat sitting on my bed, glum, yet proud... how soon the whistling and engaging with mob sounds was hushed when the israeli anthem was sung... i'm happy for these people, even if i am one of them, but at such a distance: i don't feel i am part of them... so much for the glorification of western objectivity standards in argument... but i am a polack, on the british isles... what sort of objectivity am i i to expect? the objective counter-subjectivity of born in Poland, but bred in England?! is that it?! walking abortion... i am proud that the crazed mob was hushed when the israeli anthem continued... after all... SS-obersturmbannführer rudolf höss did cite casimir III allowing jews to settle in these eastern european lands... nes c'est pas? né(s) ç'é(st) pā(s)?! how else to write something akin to this, without finding oneself gritting one's teeth, grinding them into a toothpaste sensation of fluoride sandpits?!

fan-boy literature: stendhal, dante,
dumas (vs)
young-adult novels,
which, i will never read...

just enough whiskey
to count the rounds
of the crucuible
of the current escapade...

i'm ageing,
but i still like bands
like i might be a teenager...

came the: grand sorrow
taste, for all that's worth,
in encompassing a tomorrow.
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