Going To Alaska
(专辑: Taboo VI: The Homecoming - 1991)
The
jacaranda are wet with color, and the
heat is a
great paint brush, lending color to our lives, and to the
air, and to out faces; but I'm going to Alaska where there's snow to suck the
sound out from the
air. Up, yes, in the
branches, the
purple blossoms, go pale at the
edges; there is meaning in the
shifting of the
sap, and I
see in them traces of last year, but then they hadn't grown so strong, and their limbs were more like wires. Now they are cables. thick and alive with alien electricity, and I
am going to Alaska, where you can go blind just by looking at the
ground, where fat is eaten by itself just to keep the
body warm. Because from where we are now, it seems, really, that everything is growing in a
thousand different ways; that the
soil is soaked through with old blood and with relatives who were buried here, or close to here, and they are giving rise to what is happening. Or can you tell me otherwise? I
am going to Alaska, where the
animals can kill you, but they do so in silence, as though if no-one hears them, then it really won't matter. I
am going to Alaska. They tell me that it's perfect for my purposes.