Jake de Peuter
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Text and Video: abi asks why i answer the ten oclock
abi asks why i answer the ten oclockquestions at rex’s café yeahhe sold that land sold the machinery he’s retired now y’knowbought that pickup new and all he doesis drive the old lady to the city to do errandspick up groceries at the i g afeed at the mill so she can feedthe chickens in Continue reading
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the final dawn
the final dawnsomewhere in thuringiaa bud on a twig of beechbuddedfrom dusk when the day shortenedinto winter orovernightbudded and now the time of yeardawn thaws and the day lengthensthe beech leaf is parchmentscroll rolled at the end of the twigwhen it’s unfurledinto a green daybreak bethere to read it Continue reading
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Text & Video: it was she who plowed furrows in the field.
it was she who plowed the furrows in the fieldand as she filled those furrows with seedhis highness gambled the acres out from under the machinery wheelsgambled the machinery right out from under her ass and the bankraked in the potraked in the harvestraked our inheritance into their record profits tell me abby won’t speak Continue reading
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when they cease to be your friends
when they cease to be your friendsit begins when they wake your daily companions the changebegins one morning the firstmorning after the annual season returns they waketheir lives dressed in silks and velvets embroideries abandoned and in their sleep smocks and in the woolen breeches of workers they go out of their roomswhen the oat Continue reading
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Text and Video: ah the lioness
ah the lionesswithout her the rain on their barnroof would drip ploink ploink ploink in the liquidmanure on the barn floor the horse in the barnwould wade plash plash plash through shit to the fetlocksto the knee knobs and yetnot even she can stop the corral collapse the decay of old posts into the dry Continue reading
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the prince’s mother
the prince’s motherthe elector’s widowjohann of brandenberg who’sappointed regent over saxonyhe adores herand his adoration tolerateswhat proclamations she issues from dresden Continue reading
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Text and Video: abi’ll bring the baby home
abi’ll bring the baby homeput him to bed on a rug where the lino is worn through to the bare floor woodi’m afraid she’ll speak how we liveinto the child’s name the name by which we must call himwe must call him solomonthe lioness expects ithttps://youtube.com/shorts/FMOpU8CtAWs?feature=share Continue reading
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you learn solitude
you learn solitudeyour classmates all are like older unclesi haven’t read anywhere that the soul has shutters that swing open nor have i heard anywherethat it has doorsyour peers when they strolluphill the street to market squaredown lane through the meadowwhen they wade from the grassshores of the elbe into the shallowswhen the light of Continue reading
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Text and Video: back in august
back in augustwe’d planned to put a crib in that second roomi laid a light colouredcarpet down against a somber tone in there and nowthe child’ld catch a chillunder the warmth i painted across the ceiling in whiteand through the cheerful air i painted on the walls in yellowhe’d catch his death by coldhttps://www.youtube.com/shorts/55Z7Fu8U9Ps Continue reading
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these two fingers
these two fingersi asked that you place themhere on your wrist like thisyour liver turnsyour banquet into blood i saidit ebbs upriver through your arteries to your heart i askedif you could feel it ebb from your heartupstream through your veinsyou said you couldyour heart’s in good health i saidnow you sayit’s not that heart Continue reading
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