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mental exercise
number six
sit down at your
oak writing desk
place a sheet of
paper in front of you
describe the sky
and the stars
larger than above
the hills of your
childhood describe
the night’s
fanned-out peacock’s tail
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now turn the paper
over and try
to describe a
model of your
surroundings as best
you can: the neighbour’s
house over there in
the dark lit up
by a crystal chandelier
distant towns you
can still recall far
off on the other
side of the dream
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then concentrate
on converting
your garden into
language flower
for flower tree
for tree write
this sentence down:
roses flower
for half a year
poems flower
for ever – write it
down on the paper
and learn it by heart
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now it’s the turn
of your own house
sit down in
the middle of your house
and reproduce
exactly its layout
the relation of the rooms
to each other
the positions of the doors
whether the kitchen
faces south the grammar
of the wallpapers et
cetera etc.
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finally take a
new sheet of paper
out of the drawer and
place it in front of you
on the writing desk
carefully copy the surface
of this writing desk
what is lying on
it: a packet of kings
a pair of glasses kingo’s
winter hymns and this
drawing which contains
this drawing which...
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