Excerpt

Poems by peter Šulej

Defragmentation

... day in day out each and every minute i mean second

we indeed contemplate the good and the evil

which always brings us right to the very beginning

to switching on a Television

followed by a branching out and further contemplation

as we carry on gathering mosaic motley stones

for yet another attempt

to de-fragment

May be May

my name may be may

may is a poem lost

that we all so desperately strive to rediscover

and search for in the least plausible places

where only may may ever be allowed

only because it  – may indicate a will to liaison the present mission 

that is why an officer may have acquired identity of a may

and green snowballing suddenly crystallised into a clear picture

that hides a true spectre of the net – it, may 

may is a name of a magician, an oracle

a secret formula classified in the dossiers of a ministry of hocus-pocus may be?

or what continues is nothing but a mirroring system?

well, it may

it may be that inter day span makes some breaking news of transformation

as all delayed stories turn out to be stories lacking a definite point

as the temporal turnes into eternal

and may into dismay

may grows in all seasons of every year

may is a tree and wind and rain and the sun moon siblings

and it may be of an ancient semitic tribe that may have bore the name of may

which may no longer be possible

to atriculate

may may be a Mr. Somebody but may as well may be Mr. Nobody

may may be me

may may be my name may be

 

(the one who dictated me this poem may know the answers)

 

To See

abstract images suddenly coming out

of the point where sight and touch have conflued

winter verses cannot help sweating in the summer heat

but what happens with an autumn love?

in the unfolding colours of the spring

is a vital thing

alike coming to senses with where and knowing why is what

a philosopher‘s stone or:

an adjusted capital of a Ionic column

to see images in the lanes of wheat in the snow fields

tracks of  some visitors and skiers

in every glass full of scotch on rocks

to see images

and know what is and what is not

(The fist time I saw a live fox

was at the age of 26, in Cappadokia)

neither god nor a badger have yet materialised my way

and only one museum remains where axes intersect

 

Selected Radio Waves

I can hear your voice

voice spelled in waves

I can´t see you

I can´t touch you

just the voice

unclear hissed aenesthetic

voice lost

in the waves of voices

in structures of sound fields

ungraspable imperceptible unfanthomable

despite the message

just the voice voice voice...

I can hear your voice

voice spelled in waves

I can´t see you

I can´t touch you

just the voice...

occasionally pop...

unclear hissed aenesthetic

voice lost

in the waves of voices

in structures of sound fields

ungraspable imperceptible unfanthomable

despite the message

just the voice voice voice

and occasionally, from time to time pop

Program Is Program

program is program

all the time it has been lying right before our eyes

oh until we figured out

that program is program

and

apparently

did not leave any info on its origin

on its goals & opuses

why and chiefly what for all this variety

all of the universe in every single module

why the hell did install it here?

the intricacy, zig-zaging in the loops of history?

it feels like playing a game of blindfolding with us

in the gardens of genetic structures

the role of  speed of our machines and cryptography

let me repeat: program is program

and interpretation does not have to seem any more complex

due to reading Dino Barney by a child

that has been dormant in us for ages

it will just say:

program is program

apparently

saying nothing of its end.

This is not a TV series

much

perhaps all too much of dynamism

is there in my interior

in my blood

leaking through the pores of my skin

outside

affected by Ebola virus

the appearance – resurrection

that´s what I keep saying:

this is not a TV series

this is not a TV series

not at all, in fact

from punk to establishment

The spirit of satellite

I am

the spirit of satellite

(something of an angel)

I whisper whisper:

open discover my poetry quietly

you academics of the 22nd century

I am

the spirit of satellite

dont wanna harm you

I only wait for a reading

of heroic tales of the ancient media combats

I am

the spirit of satellite

empower your neurochip

together we´ll count down

our remembrances of the past

Translated by Martin Solotruk