John O'Dal
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I see paradox all about me. With this in mind I create meaning using paradox. I create art by destroying art. I create meaning by destroying meaning.
Art
Writing
ANGELS/ODE TO THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
And I know angels die / And I know where they lie / Where they’re buried and why
ELEGY FOR NOEL TUNKS (ARTIST)
The Holocaust / Goethe’s Faust
PHOTOGRAPH AS MONUMENT
And how I bore the philosophy / Of bar-room bores / And Socrates / As they tried to analyse the dance / Of life and death as happenstance
THE REFECTORY
And the blindfolded courtiers / Bowing before the royal scene / Pick the feathers from their teeth / And hail their sated Queen
WHY SCULPTORS RARELY DANCE
Who knows? / I might eventually forget / The yin and yang / Of regret
Life Is Strange
The ether gained / A new luminary
