Wonderwater—Roni Horn/Louise Bourgeois

“as in the rough stream of a glacier the ice holds a splinter of bone, a blue petal, some oak trees, and rolls them on.” —Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

         

1. Song Sung Glue

    The librarian who doesn’t know how to read
    She sets the books in rows
    Ear Lubricant is necessary
    Curiosity is not
                        (do not wake the cat,
                        which is sleeping,
                        understand your limits)

    I make the research
    You make the connections

         

2. I’m A Star In NY

    To have the energy and the persistence to
    to replace fear by trust or at least by
    by expectation

         

3. O Wo Is Mio

    Sometimes I try to make people admit that they do not like the anatomy of a want
              (me)
    Finally, I guess they don’t

         

4. I Am That I

    Sometimes I try to make people admit that I am portrayed by what I do not know.
    Finally, I guess they don’t

                        Ich Bin Tatsächlich Ein Haus
                        Worin
                        Ich Einen Platz Machen Kann

         

5. All The Screamers

    Screaming, endless screaming, uninterrupted screaming,
    just for the sake of emptying yourself of the pain

    A germ of rage lives in you

    If you would not work in the world of emotions
    you would not have any deceptions

         

6. MupPet Sounds

    Memories
    Take care of
    The fear of the past: nostalgia
    Take care of
    Themselves

         

7. We Don’t Go Too Far

    That is what fear does—
    it establishes the distance between the immediate and the eternal.

    I know it and I am taking care of it.

         

8. Tweety Takes A Holiday

    Das Bett umgestürzt.

    In the morning as you wake up,
    you come out of a bumpy
    night and are on the other side
    to write one’s sleep

         

9. Look What You’ve Done

    it is going to be too late

    Mach Leere, Leere
    Ich Will Eine Leere Sein

    guilt—the boots of the dead

         

Titles and linked songs by PLU
Text originally by Louise Bourgeois but rearranged by me.

         

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