Dislocation

by Petra Ganglbauer

Choir: We point to RED.
Speaker: The recourse to streets. Figures. Buildings.
She: We couldn't get enough of the view through the panes. Clouds of gas. Stench. And yet really corporeal.
Speaker: The city is a narrative. Planning. Obsession.
She: Picture mountains. Shredded lips. Eyes open wide.
And the motors: head & heart & hips.
Speaker: An interlocking system of organs. An association of people.
An interlocking traffic system.
She: We couldn't get enough of the view through the panes, but it gradually faded. We came - blown by - with rattling organs.


(Farther beyond, on the highway, a swarm of ringed falcons, tumbling upwards)

Speaker: Obsession of construction & deconstruction.
She: In the middle you see the break.
She: The city puts us in a state in which we lag far behind the elapsed time and the events taking place in it, the traffic light signals - so far that only as a dot on the horizon it...
Choir: We point to RED.
She: We couldn't get enough of the view through the panes, but it dissolved.
And sometimes, prompted by visible and invisible sounds, we drifted - everything in us at the same time - like clouds, webs, upward...

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