I
hate bureaucracy but cannot live and dream without it. This is especially true
during my study leave, which I can mostly spend dreaming the possibility of a harmonious
world in vivid, ordered colours, sounds and delicious smells. Visit and browse
through my Google-locked Artsite’s ‘Poetry
and Poetics’ for past daydreaming records.
IMAGE: Bürokratie / Bureaucracy II by Christian Schnettelker www.manoftaste.de and Flickr
There is an element of bibliomancy attached to
study leaves
Nobody feels particularly eager to divulge.
Instead, she’s buried under piles of hints and
applications,
Promises that she’ll find the map of lost
scholarly treasures
Mornings which turn to evenings of ideas in motion.
The bureaucratic prophet whispers in her ears
And she departs on journeys with a lot of
unrelated baggage
She sheds half way to undefined but glorious
destinations.
Meanwhile, the ring of academic inspiration
Partakes in wedding rituals for which it never was
intended
It decorates the finger of those brides who loved
someone else
And run away with them before the priest completes
his pitiful prayers.
The bibliomancy of study leaves is destined to
achieve a happy ending
Only because the applicant crafts her destiny
Only because she captures beautiful ideas in her
pages’ magic net
Only because the study leave will never acquire
fixed purpose
Before her pilgrimage calls into being that temple
In which the ring will rest until its new
proposal.
Leeds, 06
February 2014
