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Shan State Suite: II. Moitessier

from The Front Lines of the War by Scott Ezell • Will Klingenmeier

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ii. Moitessier

Take the beauty of antennae towers and gravel crushers,
compress it into a pharmaceutical formula,
panacea for a life of boring equilibrium,
mix tongues and mythologies with bitumen
to roll out a roadbed
so we can lumber forward
like prehistoric beasts
towards inevitable extinction,
everything sticks and stalls
wheels ideas ideals
borders drawn with algorithms of authority
steadied by whisky and soda
to anesthetize animal grief
the pain of subjugation.


Moitessier sailed around the world
navigating by the stars
and the slant of swells
across the surface of the sea,
forsaking land
even to fill his pockets,
slingshotting rolls of film
to passing freighters,
trusting some brotherhood of sailors
to send them to offices in London.
Me too!
I never rounded the southern capes,
I have no sextant, no knowledge of the stars
just a bestial faith in waves,
magma and breath
empires and extinctions
pass through me,
continental plates
drift shore to shore
beneath my ribs and clavicle,
beneath the crust of earth,
as they rise
as they subside.

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from The Front Lines of the War, released August 10, 2021

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Will Klingenmeier Denver, Colorado

An omnivore of sound, lover of monophonic plainchants, noise, and the dérive, Will Klingenmeier has spent the last fifteen years living as a borderline hermit developing a distinct sonic palate. He is a sound artist placing emphasis on indeterminacy, code, field recordings and synthesis. ... more

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