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States of Poetry 2016 - South Australia | 'Bent' by Jill Jones

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States of Poetry South Australia - Series One

States of Poetry 2016 - South Australia | 'Bent' by Jill Jones

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States of Poetry South Australia - Series One

I am history now
in the scales, the age of sounds

I make sense then drop it
it gets dirty, it breaks
the ants carry it

I am bent at the switch
my tapes of the archive
decay, loops stutter
glitch arias

I am bent at the floor
facts roll under the chair
little dust songs
or songs outside
the parrots know

and I am still my species
struck, listening

 

Jill Jones

Recording ('Bent' begins at 6:21)

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