Hythe+ #13 Three Poems by Gonçalo Lamas
united states of zoom
if you wanna skate together, log in.
generation generator,
speaks the you
you speaks of.
survey bukkake
in onomatopoeic code
in knee deep time,
in a spoiler alert:
about a young fiction we shared and share
but some didn’t and
so don’t.
i don’t mean to block anyone, really,
attendance too is a part in
this puppet show.
if it sounds like dog speak
just imagine times square.
a meal for the go, going.
meta versus method,
wink and semicolon.
it doesn’t get more historical materialism
than this totally meaningless same
we call same.
anytime, anytime.
same!
public service purveyor
private captive sibling
downward spiral,
euphoria throwbacks,
fast track weather channels,
24-hour hours, more specifically.
unconditional sightseers,
blind hard drivers,
lax evaders.
it is the word logic without logic,
it is the word why without why,
forget it is the word without.
everyone say
happy birthday!
face farce
i was that real
kneeling
on all 4s,
all hands.
every finger crossed.
did i win
did we lost,
what,
did we win
did i lose,
better
not.
influence diet
you really don’t need
to live on a strict feed
of dated saturation,
still after still after still
another frozen knock off,
some stale same heat.
on that account,
nostalgia is a poison
and my immunity is tough
on axioms of royal sadness,
air conditioner of influence capital.
the next religion will be a viral one
(like all previous)
but dressed up for a quantic kind
of ceremony:
enter crystal subjects
enter myopic maze,
enter dying sky,
marketeers in every shade of ghost,
enter.
ghost in every shade of market,
selling blond, buying blind.
they get it,
live it as a death cult:
meta money, face money,
‘thank you’ suits of armour.
worn once
the New never,
dear retinal shopper ;)
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Gonçalo is an artist and writer from Porto, Portugal. After briefly studying film, he did the BA Fine Art 4D at Central Saint Martins, graduating in 2017, after a semester abroad at UdK Berlin. In 2020, he presented the performance 'Boeing Nº 737-800 in F#m' at Culturgest Porto and launched an accompanying bilingual book at the 6th Artist Self-Publishers’ Fair. ‘Granary Squares’, his first work for cinema, shot and edited in London, premiered at IndieLisboa International Film Festival, in 2021. ‘some times zero hours’, edited by SPAM Press 2022, is his first poetry pamphlet. In September, he joined the study program at Le Fresnoy in France, where he’s working on a free film adaptation of Jean Racine’s ‘Andromaque’.
