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ELEMENTALLY HEAVENLY
I’m on the Ostruznica levee it’s completely covered with grass nobody is walking over it so there is no path I’m enjoying the beauty of its body which I can see in its mild bend when I was a child I was watching how one levee was made hundreds of horses and hundreds of workers were working from dusk till dawn peasants were working on the ground and workers with soil soil is wondrous it gives birth channels are done in the soil. levees are done from the soil elementally I’m under the influence of elemental and I’m in the element walker singer rhythm of all beings I live what I live I sing what I sing late autumn vermillion salutes winter snow whiteness earth is heavens life on the earth is heavenly people make atrocities to each other and to other beings and they make hell out of the earthly heavens this morning as well I was reading about atrocities one nation does to the other nation I never say the names when hatred is in question so that hatred wouldn’t spread greatest evils are done in the name of family nation and God greatest killer is the feeling that You are right committing the crimes in somebody’s name is selfishness and stupidity greater than any other selfishness and stupidity biggest lie of them all even though I am sad because of those everyday crimes and atrocities the joy of the very life is invigorating me while gardening with my steps through this levee heavens I hope that this garden will bare more and more heavenly fruits heavenly compassion of all beings towards one another heavenly love of the powerful ones towards the powerless ones heavenly freedom of the powerful ones within the powerless ones heavenly elementally I live what I sing I sing what I live
AUTUMN BUDDING
we are one sure we are only ones everybody melody and harmony are one all rhythms are one you excite me you excite me as well I fuck Your heart it’s yours with irony man defends himself from his own weaknesses with wittiness man hides his imperial and colonial crimes I’m crying I’m also crying sweet is agreeing as sweet as it can be agreeing is the road rose on the road president of the world Julian Assange holly bird of the world Nadezhda Tolokonnikova again I feel like crying from beauty and me from goodness everything is so simple and innocent all boys are mother-fuckers all girls are fucked mothers swearwords are mine… …my lullabies everything I say You already thought of everything that you say creates me Bud is budding
WHOEVER WANTS
I thought of writing in next ten or so meters 33 blessings from what I see while I was writing them I felt within myself unreal beauty in that simple reality ripped off little branch on the big surface of concrete I will write slowly through these five kilometres with which today’s walking finishes goodness is sometimes nothing more than the very solitude what is here everything is nobody sees that I am God for the very same reason I should see that myself You god is a courage to see that i am god in anybody’s warm tears I slowed down and I’m enjoying more and more in tiredness that is mildly overwhelming me not only that tiredness is overwhelming me but the beauty of the word overwhelming is overwhelming me as well overwhelm me overwhelming overwhelm wonderful is the encounter with words I’m writing and suddenly I’m meeting the word suddenly once and suddenly for one and suddenly yearns my soul I’m in the arms of a runaway child in the arms of all particles in tranquillity birds particles whoever You are I feel more and more Your love I just wanted to write say anything before I turn off on you when my voice recorder turned off after the splendour of the very writing writing aids are also splendid in writing tools stiles pen and paper. graphite and pencil. typewriter and computer. voice recorder even though I’m against weapons and against instruments I admit I love some tools tools for writing. tools for listening music. tools for fucking all of a sudden I got excited with the female one who guards the male one that is guarding all beings within himself happiness of solitude is in the very happiness whoever wants can drink from this blessing whoever wants can feed from this blessing whoever wants can find a bed and love in this blessing whoever wants can get wedded and find a home in this blessing
GLOOMY SUNDAY
not even a sun ray wants to shine without you
I’m listening to Ljiljana Petrovic Batler
during the Walkings for Poetry I was singing
Gloomy Sunday in unknown places during gloomy Sundays
I’ve listened to her many times
Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday is Billie Holiday is Billie Holiday
sorrow sings marvellously
suicide attracts marvellously
marvellously day is crumbling
I crumble into crumbles
I’m a stranger above all strangers
small slights alienate, small courtesies integrate
Timothy Garton Ash
only love for all beings is worthy of love
it’s very hard for me to write and that’s very beautiful
it crumbles
looks like my subwoofer is breaking and that’s what makes me sad
I love to listen to music with strong basses
strong basses are like heavy sacks
slave liberation
grapes are gone
I’m listening again how Ljiljana is singing
whole of her body is in her throat
she embraces with the throat of sorrow
flowers are in her mouth
everything is in vain but only in vain is singing
sometimes only epidemics of suicides are not in vain
multitude of whales stranded on the shore
why
sometimes only child suicides are preventing and redeeming horrible wars of grownups
grownups stop the wars your children will kill themselves
hey Miroslav
BEAT SISTER BEAT
yesterday evening I bought a new subwoofer since the old one got broke basses are even deeper heart beats sacks sacks beat brother beat beat only beat beat of all-peace-universe beat of all-myth beat of all-beat beat of being words beat music beat they are one beat beat of the one and only mind in all minds beat in all beats beat in all bulls (beat and bull are similar words in Serbian: bit & bik) steps steps steps beat of a moment beat of eternity beat of a fly beat of an elephant beat of goodness beat of beauty beat of road beat of rose beat of sweat beat tears beat of God beat god three words beat two words one bud
ST. ARCHANGEL MICHAEL – SLAVA OF ALL BEINGS
I’m alone so that I wouldn’t be alone I’m alone for everyone I’m alone so that a beloved other one wouldn’t separate me from a third one I’m alone so that a beloved third one wouldn’t separate me from one and only I I’m alone so that beloved I wouldn’t separate me from God I’m alone so that the beloved family wouldn’t separate me from one and only family of all beings I’m alone so that the beloved nation wouldn’t separate me from all nations I’m alone so that a beloved man wouldn’t separate me from minerals plants animals and higher beings I’m alone too much to be alone – I’m with all beings I’m alone too much to be alone – I’m with everyone I’m alone too much to be alone – I’m happy with everybody I’m going only to the market to buy bread and chrysanthemums for Slava the rest of today’s ten kilometres I hope will walk several from twenty or so visitors of my site I bought three big white chrysanthemums they smell of snow in my childhood for St. Archangel Michael’s Day almost every year would snow the smell of chrysanthemums apples and pure children’s souls and no one will ever know that in the letter is you only you my love and I’ll be watching in the distance and searching the silence more and more the fact that you are here in my bed without any clothes on from Banat all the way to Srem clouds are low fuck me Slava I’m Yours God’s glory I would love to read again a collection of Serbian swearwords Red Bank swearwords are prayers of innocent ones beggars’ love is gratitude and love of God cling on and curl up with me all beings – we are one nobody is less alone then me I’m off to the other table. that’s where are waiting for me wheat. candle. bread. wine. chrysanthemums bigheartedness of the rejected ones and generosity of the imprisoned ones beloved Nadezhda and Julian and myriad anonymous one in jails and all beings at one and only table of the one and only family in one and only cosmic Slava – Slava of all beings in each being Cosmos for me is – everything and piece – Universe of everything visible and invisible
HUNDRED AND THIRTY TWO PHOTOS
I am the Universe of everything visible and invisible there is a vast field of visible which is still invisible only invisible can never be visible actually that invisible with visible and still undiscovered visible makes me the Universe not what is still incomprehensible in comprehensible but the very incomprehensible which is forever incomprehensible not what is still inexpressible in expressible but the very inexpressible which is forever inexpressible couple of days ago Srdjan Valjarevic brought me Wittgenstein’s Tractatus I was very excited I thought to myself it is the most beautiful book of the twentieth century turfs barefoot toe sores skinned elbows squeezed out ulcers cuts disturbing salvaging wasteland liberates road and rose are then in virginal fervour innocence redeems everything cling to me cling curl up curl up meander You’re within me i’m within you tomorrow I’ll begin the work While… it will be hundred and thirty two plainest photos photos of Your sex and Your immortality while You are doing anything during the day You will be able to live my love while You’re sleeping while You’re licking Your lips while You’re calming Your heart while You’re writing the sentence which You’re taking the photo of I’m in a jiff powerlessness permeates me with love it will be a road of hundred and thirty two photos every day through the winter until the spring
WHILE SLEEPING YOU CAN FEEL MY LOVE FOR YOU
while sleeping You can feel my love for You is the first out of hundred and thirty two photos of the work I’m calling While… I’ll be putting them every day on the Bud link of the website miroslavmandic.name last one I will put on April 25th 2013 it will be a story about the source of holly everyday from which You can drink love every day while feeling not loved You can feel that I love You while rejoicing You can feel that I love You while doing and being anything You can feel that I love You I’m walking down the side rail tracks in Bele Vode many people who lived in last hundred and fifty years feel nostalgic about trains platforms railway stations people who lived two hundred years ago didn’t feel nostalgic about trains because there was no trains at that time they also didn’t exist three hundred years ago when Spinoza in 1677 in his Tractatus politicus defined four ways of enslaving a man put him in chains take his weapons and possibility to defend paralyse him by fear give him plenty material goods a flock of sparrows on the branches of not picked rosehip six pigeons are squatting on the electric wires workers are demolishing what they previously built so that they can build again vine leaves are withering oak leaves are yellow like yellow-brown pears I remember how last summer I was taking photos of grass on this road I made 33 photos of grass 33 photos of leaves hundred and thirty two While… photos are four series of 33 photos winter dream in the den of love in that den I will be reminding You that somebody always loves You I love this mudslide on Bele Vode I saw rocks and felt aliens live in rocks everything is so close world is created now while I was going through Bele Vode I was sad while getting out of Bele Vode I’m joyful on the edge of Julino Brdo ten waste containers are placed like ten crows keepers I’m tenderly thinking of Spinoza some people are the Universe tender like a breast brave like milk
TWELVE THOUSAND KILOMETRES OF THE BUD OF WALKING
I have made 17.144.857th step twelve thousand kilometres in less than three years in order to encircle the planet Earth once more until December 31st 2019 I need to walk 12,796 kilometres every day I’ve walked twelve thousand kilometres with daily average of 13,207 kilometres rhythm rhythm rhythm steps steps steps words words words step by step time step by step space word by word poem when people were dazed with the discovery of a wheel they were saying that the Universe is a wheel when people were dazed with the discovery of a clock they were saying that the Universe is the mechanism as precise as a clock dazed with computer they are saying that the Universe is a computer designers are talking about the Universe as design informatician as information bankers as bank for me the Universe is a poem one and only poem poem of all poems i am you are i am god a moment ago I met with my Elvis. I was meeting him for three years almost every day on the Boulevard. I haven’t seen him for year or two. he was joyful as always even though he is disabled and in a wheelchair whatever and whoever universe is for universe and elvis i’m singing a poem of love twenty eight thousand kilometres more in front of me seven years and thirty six more days I hope I will endure poem of endurance sings the endurance of singing poem is an oath to singing poem is love through which poem love-kisses poem to poem little Gypsy is singing in the bus and nobody gave him a single dinar great singing is without any dinars let’s sing sing sing we are love
ONE AND ONLY ONE OR IT’S TODAY’S DAY BIRTHDAY
white chrysanthemums on the table
white like snow
Monday’s birthday
Monday of November 26th 2012
every day is its own birthday
every day is a new day
one and only day
first day
every day is the only one until midnight
every day is a new day until midnight
poem
from
midnight
till
midnight
every day sings to everyone who is within it
I love to feel understand and start loving those who are foreign to me
those whose feelings thoughts taste and behaviour I despise
not agreeing in my youth with existing condition in society. with
current image of the world. with career. I surrendered to the open sky
to God
to the beginning
one from which everything was created
that’s how one and only one has revealed itself to me
eternal now
the very life
everything that is constantly intertwining with everything in everybody
everything which is the one and only detail of everything
mental
sings
mental
mental
love-kisses
physical
body of the one and only body is within every body
one and only body never dies
one and only poem never ends
I couldn’t resist this plane tree leaf. I picked it up and – I’m kissing it
every day is a day of gratitude to all days
gratitude is joy in every day
every day is a husband to each night
today is today’s birthday
a day without snow with chrysanthemums white as snow
bele hrizanteme na stolu
bele kao sneg
rođendan ponedeljka
ponedeljka 26. novembra 2012.
svaki dan je samom sebi rođendan
svaki dan je novi dan
jedan jedini dan
prvi dan
svaki dan je do ponoći jedan jedini dan
svaki dan je od ponoći novi dan
pesma
od
ponoći
do
ponoći
svaki dan peva svakom ko je u njemu
volim kad osetim razumem i zavolim one koji su mi strani
one čijih se osećanja mišljenja ukusa i ponašanja gadim
ne pristajući u mladosti na postojeće stanje u društvu. na
aktuelnu sliku sveta. na karijeru. predao sam se otvorenom nebu
Bogu
početku
jednom iz koga je sve nastalo
tako mi se otkrilo jedno jedino jedno
večno sada
život sam
sve koje se neprestano prepliće sa svime u svakom
sve koje je jedan jedini detalj svega
umno
peva
umno
umno
ljubi
telesno
telo jednog jedinog tela je u svakom telu
jedno jedino telo nikada ne umire
jedna jedina pesma nikada ne prestaje
nisam mogao da odolim ovom listu platana. podigao sam ga i — ljubim ga
svaki dan je zahvalnost svim danima
zahvalnost je radost u svakom danu
svaki dan je muž svakoj noći
danas je današnjem danu rođendan
dan bez snega sa hrizantemama belim kao sneg
ALLOW ME
allow me to whisper in Your ear so that everybody can hear all cells within You are love some of them are pigeons some swallows some butterflies some flowers some meadows some clouds all of them are circling like joy within You rejoice us – they are telling You we love-kiss You – they are telling You love us – they are telling You they are trembling meandering waving they are love-kissing each other through love-kissing You they are nourishing each other through caressing You they are singing each other through celebrating You allow me to carry on whispering in Your ear so that everybody can hear all particles within You are birds which fly high under the clouds flying from one branch to the other from one roof to the other flying over the streets rivers and mountains seas and oceans they are whirling in the wind they are bathing with rain they are shining through the sun birds within You are created through love birds within You are receiving and giving through love birds within You are and live through love allow me in the end to whisper You once more so that everybody can hear this whispering in Your soul will never stop
HAPPINESS OF THE ONE AND ONLY ONE
warm wind is carrying the smell of rotten leaves light rain is gently pattering over my coat I’m happy because I’m in the air happy because I’m walking happiness is joy which beauty feels in goodness happiness is freedom which creation feels in walking happiness is truth which singing feels in creating happiness – indescribable is happiness – unspeakable is happiness – reasonless is every being celebrates life in itself living in beings life is happy living in beings life is eternal living in beings life is life alive life is god of god alive life is alive life of god alive life is happy life lives in joy of all beings life lives in order to celebrate each being soil is full of fallen leaves that circling of leaves is wondrous greenery gets yellow and in the end it shimmers like gold for ten years I was drawing leaves for ten years grass if a prerequisite of politics is to discover that You know who is Your enemy the prerequisite of poetics is Your revelation that everything and everybody is Your friend a flock of sparrows has been vigorously and joyfully flying in circles around me without sisterly and brotherly love for all beings man’s story about man is a sad story about egotism I’m still impressed with joyful cheerfulness of the flock of sparrows I’m climbing to the concrete bridge in order to cross the river birds fly over the river in a second god’s creation. continuation of creation and new creation are one and only creation one and only one my only love hello young wind over the river – I’m shouting from the bridge to the wind over the river
SOWER AND WINNOWER OF THE SINGING LOVE
the length of my step is seventy centimetres while climbing on the bridge I’m counting how big is the radius of the circle with circumference seventy centimetres eleven point one centimetre I’m imagining my steps as wheels which radius is eleven point one centimetre good evening wind – I’m shouting to today’s wind over the river again today’s wind is warmer than yesterday’s one man in the middle of the river fishes in the boat four kilometres upstream I swam across the Sava last summer while thinking which word to use to describe the state of refined yearning through which I’ve been living life since I was born the wind has lifted fine sand in front of my legs beginning-of-winnowing is that the word shining living life like the sun’s shining winnowing living life like the winnowing of snow getting-wet-in-the-rain living life like the raining every day impregnating everything every day be impregnated with everything sawing life living love eating God’s brad through male movement of the bridge a woman is lighting up a cigarette in the wind she is putting the lighter back in her jacket she is it zipping up with great pleasure she is inhaling a second drag wind is carrying her hair wind is fluttering the grass while saying wind is fluttering the grass I felt something magnificent in that wind is fluttering the grass wind is fluttering the grass is the greatest monument in the world singer is sowing words poet is sowing poems I was born as a sower of the words I was created to saw myself in the pussy of a poem all my words are breads and poems in the poem of a pussy
MIRACULOUS
I agree that those who are bad should become good but I also believe that the good ones should become miraculous miraculous God the same way that it’s hard for the bad ones to change and become good it’s even harder for the good ones to give up their goodness and become miraculous it’s always and only about my change creation of transformation implementation of promised overcoming of created transformation of creativity love is the only change which never stops what’s new neighbour – asks one neighbour the other one we’re making new from old – responds the neighbour on toes daily portion of everyday certainty of the swept away strudel with poppy seeds for lunch and for diner and two three bites of bread with oil along the way sudden change of rhythm is always good the rhythm of repetition always clings I love You wind in the night is swinging the traffic lights in the empty street You are my life atmospheres a thigh tucked to a thigh midnight walks anything whenever I say anything I said everything somebody somewhere somebody somewhere somebody somewhere in my heart somebody somewhere in my heart is god
GRATITUDE AND ADMIRATION ARE CONSTANTLY EMERGING IN AND OUT OF EACH OTHER
soul is trembling with love soul is kissing with throat through sacrifice of love soul love-kisses the victims of love mystics of sacrifice liberates all worlds through horses throat it’s great that you gave him money – I said to a girl who was giving money to a beggar. she blushed and smiled gracefully a flash of innocence love flashes grace sparks the secret of love is that every being can love-kiss all beings the secret of love is in the light through which each being can light each nook of the Universe the secret of love is in a poem which shines with impossible poem is a horse which is talking to us my male friend poem is a mare which is singing to us my female friend boulevard of saturday in the poem of boulevard everything has started and all of that has started now the secret of now is that everything has happened now that everything is happening now that everything will happen now the beauty of now is that it also happened now imagine that what happened now I love words when they get out of body I love body when it gets out of word I love words when they are getting out of heart I love heart when it comes out of words I love words when they come out of mind I love mind when it comes out of words I love words when they come out of words I love words when they come out of words I’m thinking of hooligan sparrow whose love I constantly feel free of charge is sexiest and the most expensive I love-kiss You my beloved hooligan dusk is setting down I am constant gratitude and admiration
MIRACULOUS LIVE IS HAPPY IN ANYONE WHO IS MIRACULOUS
today is my Jean-Luc Godard’s birthday eighty second miraculous life is happy in anyone who is miraculous Ye Haiyan is holly Ye Haiyan or Liumang Yan or Hooligan Sparrow I admire her I admire sparrows Ye Haiyan Nadezhda Tolokonnikova Julian Assange while walking in the strong wind next to the lake I’m a little boat in the open sea I’m whining while thinking of locked up Nadezhda locked up Julian and wonderful Hooligan Sparrow I’m trembling with love from love in their actions I’m trembling in the beauty of crow’s wings with which happiness is flying towards me I’m crying and I’m happy happiness is freedom freedom is happiness I’m crying and imagining how with this cry happiness is flowing in the blood of all beings I’m crying thinking of tranquillity and non-aggressiveness of Lionel Messi the best football player of all times here they are on the road shy freckled girl and frozen runaway boy through strings of stamping through jaws of wandering through dear burdocks through the spine which twists from liking all beings to fall into the enthrallment of the other through open nostrils to accept with bosoms the other into one’s own tranquillity shy her and frozen him freckled her and runaway him miraculous happiness in the blood of all beings chirrups yes it is yes
I’M DRINKING UP A GLASS OF WINE IN YOUR HEALTH
today is my sixty third birthday twenty three thousand eleventh day of my life midday bells of love are actually ringing from my mobile phone I’m in the house. on Saturday and yesterday I got a bit cold. maybe I also caught a virus sun is shining outside I’d love to go outside but outside I can’t go Ivana will bring me medications and food and one birthday cream pie I will grind lemon and mix it with sugar as my father used to do I’m taking a photo of my face for the link walking I will drink two glasses of Petar’s wine i am miroslav mandic i’m singing miroslav mandic am i Ivana brought plenty of things. we spread it on the floor. it was a real birthday today I’m starting to read Bertrand Russell I’m preparing myself for Wittgenstein’s Tractatus I’m on my own g o d enchanting reduction this morning Zelimir Zilnik sent me a photo which he took on December 1st 2012 in Taiwan in which can be seen one very old tree underneath which Zeljko is sitting and in the subject was written You, tree and me you tree me reduced enchantment both sides of the same I’m thinking of poets I’m thinking of Zineta who said about her life with her late husband whole life child-like and friendly love iTunes is playing at the moment Six Days on the Road coachman-like truck-driver-like walker-like coachmaning oneself managing oneself being both road and rose on the road on one and only God’s road innocence of the rejected ones used handkerchief light of serving seven hundred and twenty eight of those who saw this video
SOMEHOW
I’m completely knackered my nose is constantly running my eyes are sore and full of tears my forehead is sore I’ve no energy it looks that I’ve got a bad cold a drop of tea has fallen onto my desk yesterday I took off the desk the thirteenth table picture and put on the fourteenth one it is now just whiteness of the paper I love art which becomes on its own through tramping a path by steps which are polishing the stone by accidental traces of pencils on the wall I was in the bed for two hours I put the hat on my head Ivana brought me food today as well I will make Russian salad I have one more glass of Petar’s wine left only when I droop do I see how tired I am exhausted the road is long God will give I’ll get up I’m breaking a sweat for moment to moment music lifts me up but then again nothing I’ll manage somehow Russian salad then to the bed again by now everything is already wet on me I have to change poetry is in everything throughout this week I’ll be listening to Henriette in the end of the day the light of serving seven hundred seventy of those who saw this video dedicated to Ye Haiyan Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Julian Assange
HEROIC IN ALMOST NOTHING
nose is suffering eyes are full of tears already a second t-shirt is wet the fact that everything is poetry saves Ivana just brought me food ajvar and beetroot margarine and thick juice fuck what a lunch and diner then Bertrand Russel and film tonight Gloria by Sydney Lumet with Sharon Stone made in 1999 a remake of John Cassavetes’ film with Gena Rowlands from 1980 I really love John Cassavetes some people were always exciting me and they excite me more and more people without power people in whose hearts the hearts of all beings are beating Cesaria Evora song Henriette poem gives everything and poem asks everything heroic in almost nothing in the very it that is approval of goodness approval of miraculous approval of approving another changing of the wet t-shirt it’s more comfortable in dry ajvar and beetroot are already waiting for me but I have seven more blessings in front of me another t-shirt will be soaked with sweat loyalty feels like singing some more singing is nothing else but loyalty serving of all particles of all beings serving to all particles of all beings serving to poem and singing the light of serving eight hundred forty of those who saw this video dedicated to Ye Haiyan Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Julian Assange
GRETCHEN MOLANNEN
I’m happy that I’m going to listen to
Henriette today and see what the number of visitors is
I feel a bit better even though while drawing 64 Buds I started
feeling coldness from the window and immediately felt the sensation in my throat
when the House warm up a bit more I’ll dust it and clean the floor
before that I’ll go to porn sites
bowing
sanctity
I despise made up stories in the literature
rowdiness
illusionism
cockiness
last night I’ve changed wet t-shirts several times
today I’ve changed them third time already
later on three-four times more. and God know how many until tonight
it’s very pleasurable after the wet t-shirt
and sweaty skin to put on warmed up dry t-shirt
this morning I managed to shave after several days
I won’t go out till Monday after all
and I hope that on Monday I’ll be able to walk
then slowly
like viewers of the video Henriette whom today is eight hundred ninety six
like when Rachael shouts wow after Bridget’s solo on the bass
I can’t avoid mentioning Gretchen Molannen and her passing away
not only to mention her but to express my love forever
Your life and Your passing away Gretchen have not only great
sense but will be an inspiration and salvation for a lot of people
I would have been sad if I didn’t write these blessings about Gretchen
love is one
that’s why I’m writing next two blessings
I don’t like barbarianism of the civilised ones whose violence and evils are countless
number of times greater than those who are called barbarians by the civilised ones
I love you civilised ones even though you don’t know what you’re doing
I was on porn sites
wiped the dust and floor
cooked pasta
I’m listening to Amy and Rachael
radiant from the light of serving
eight hundred ninety six of those who saw this video
dedicated to Ye Haiyan Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Julian Assange