O Uzroku I Smislu
O Uzroku I Smislu
O Uzroku I Smislu
ON CAUSE
AND MEANING
(1996-2002)
This is a book about NOTHING
A book for all and none,
A verification of the system of values
And all its informers.
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ABSURDITY is the key to it all,
at the end of which
are we.
This is the point where absurdity gains meaning,
and we get the key.
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What is this NOTHING?
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... said: “IT’S TOO DARK”
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EPITAPH
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MONOLITH
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ATLANTIS
or a version of the final text of the law
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ANAGRAM
This is why They know not what they sentence Him for,
and He has told no one.
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THE CASTLE
And in it lived:
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the king had to help this unfortunate hen
so all of them could survive.
I speak of Hope as a court jester: for I know
that moderate scepticism keeps the Mind perpetually awake,
whilst faith dies in the dream she has woven herself:
thus giving birth to Hope in henlike blindness – owing to the fool,
who last night said that the sun is being born somewhere else,
which the hen did not believe and thus spent the night awaiting.
In the morning when the sun came up – the hen became blind,
and the king was about to leave the castle
for he was haunted by strange spirits throughout the entire night,
and so the fool, in order to set the king’s mind at ease
(since we know the fool is at times wiser than the king)
– told him a story, and it goes:
There!
It is nothing
that I talk about
and if by chance you are interested in this nothing
then there is nothing
stronger than this
is already something.
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A CUCKOO WANTS TO BE A BIRD OF PARADISE
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BEYOND THE CLOUDS
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I LIKE TO SLEEP
I like to sleep.
I like to die for a while, while my body stays in
and dreams of how I’m alive in my dream,
and I don’t know it’s me
since I’ve yet not been born in that form
unaccustomed to that skin.
I like to sleep
and dream someone else’s unfinished dream, for
maybe that someone thought it was boring.
He did not know visit each other at hours of darkness.
Without doors without windows we wait for dawn
which resides somewhere else, hanging
like crystal on a dream thread of mankind’s sadness.
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in the night all dark and dim
– for your arrival awaiting.
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THE TUNNEL
When you enter empty space and stumble upon so many things
you know you’re alive:
and if you end up in a mental hospital
it means you’ve seen them where there were none.
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A scream was heard.
A shade that fell from a nearby building
got blown to bits and is now in the hospital yard.
The doctors say – it will hardly hold for more than an hour.
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“The one who needs to be taught cannot be taught
unless the one who is to learn desires to learn.”
After not more then a few steps, she appeared from behind the corner.
“Hi! say something.”
“Have you never heard of a gaze”, I said
“that strips the skull right to the bone?” – and stroked her hair.
Although many are misled regarding the following, I must tell them
that understanding
does not come from reading;
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nor it is exclusively in the domain of our reason.
I know it all,
and still I tremendously yearn
for you to teach me something
– I would love to love you.
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THE BELL TOWER
Silence frets
by the bell tower.
Dark has taken hold, so the fool has told.
The immortals feast while the bell sleeps,
a hand of doubt along its ropeline creeps.
Character description, the final depiction.
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AT THE END OF A BARE INFINITIVE IN FUTURE TENSE
I’ll wipe off with a cloth the spot where I’ve been
nothing save for dust – shall after me reside,
make sure it doesn’t scratch your dreamy eyes;
I’m wept through tears of birds and fish – pearls in a seashell
glimmering this night;
in the infinity of the universe – stars in solitude alight.
I grow...
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I LIKE TRAINS
– it didn’t fit
neither on my paper
nor in my mind...
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JUDGMENT DAY
Two friends ran into each other – both having similar views about the world
– only there was no world – a black hole (aha! now what you gonna do?)
... “What will our views about the world be like now?”,
asks the first one, “perhaps black?”
On a panel it says:
“No matter how open-minded a man may be,
he must know his way home – if he doesn’t
it means he’s either homeless or insane.”
(what if he’s drunk?)
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AH, WELL...
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THE SECRET
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REFORM OF SCHOOLING
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THE LOST COUNTRY OF NEVERLAND
(Bring out your dead)
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as through poem’s verse the poet searched
for the lost country of NEVERLAND.
SHE KNOWS
Oh how beautiful
and unmarred is the world
where thought has never resided.
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STRANGE WAYS
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help to the reader
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A TALKING EAR
Not unusual are those who enjoy and give their best
to live in deception – that’s where they escape to rest
from ‘honest’ life and all its tasks and tests.
That’s where no one bothers them – and they have no peace, it’s
their first apt opportunity to catch the thief:
and he gets away like inspiration
which dwells in self-belief,
the inhabitant of condemnation;
when everybody’s condemned, they turn to themselves,
for they imagine that their importance is so immense
that they can’t live unless it’s according to their taste
for the world would shatter
out of massive grief
cause they are victims
of their own false belief.
– It is self-pity.
...Repent while there’s time.
Solitude is not that bad.
A lie is far more barren –
therein even shadows cheat on their masters.
Solitude will teach you how to live in pairs.
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THE PURSUIT AFTER THE KILLER-RABBIT
Part I
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THE ODOUR OF ENLIGHTEMENT
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AT THE JOY OF READING
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DOORS OF HEAVEN
Oh doors of heaven
fashioned for death
I want inside, to a life with no end.
A heartbeat
like blood in the arteries
rushes to the ears of deaf space.
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– I AM ALIVE.
MY DEPARTURE
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PICTURE
To put it down
where I’ve left off.
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MIRACLE
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AUM
A Sanskrit sign
Jumper
Mind
Then
Is
AIN SOF
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BEHIND YOUR MIND
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PRIZE KEY FOR DOORS NUMBER 16
– Just a moment!
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NEXT
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THE PURSUIT AFTER THE KILLER-RABBIT
Part II
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ANECDOTES
IN MONTENEGRO
If by chance in Montenegro
a gusle player served as a preventative measure in a prison
there wouldn’t be many prisoners left:
some would turn to thinkers
others
to slain heroes.
A DALMATIAN
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and all is in resonance with “I am a Dalmatian!”, it is
true, and his bray echoes – Mee-too! Mee-too! Mee-too!
STORIES FROM KOVAČIJA
– Aye?
– Yea.
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PEOPLE FROM THE MOUNTAIN
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YOU HAVE TO BE A MAN
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A STARTLED TELEVISION SET
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EXPENSIVE LIFE
A cheap story
(freedom in money)
– How much?
– Ten.
– Why fifteen?
– Because you heard wrong.
– I hear just fine.
– Then you did not understand.
– I am no fool!
– Well then the price has gone up.
– Oh well, everything is so expensive.
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A MAN TOLD ME
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THE PURSUIT AFTER THE KILLER-RABBIT
Part III
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THE BOY
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