Sunday 25 May 2014

helmut berger as konrad in visconti's 'conversation piece'



released
your bondage at last, is broken
free of weakness
free of shame
unleashed
incorruptible
amoral
you breathe
you rise again

beyond
your body
uncoiled
like smoke
exhaled
untightened
undone
each move
in the darkness
flickers with light
each shudder of flesh
communes with the night
unfrightened
unsung
and unsoiled

understand
there is peace
in understanding
he is gone
believe
in his pale, wrecked face
but you
an old man
must live
and in his bloodless pain, his lifeless hands
discover
what ... grace
and know
in an unshattered morning
there is nothing he can forgive.





Helmut Berger is mentioned in another blog of mine, Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered.

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Tuesday 13 May 2014

gordon gano - (im)pure charisma

he pleads
he needs
he’s on his knees
he pants
he purrs
he prays

he lies
implies
he pacifies

he’s free
he sells
he pays

part-serpent in the garden
part-jesus on the cross
he slithers and he suffers
for everything we’ve lost

only listen

so intense
he’s so insistent
this eternal adolescent
in the picture in my head
i never was a follower
but by him i could be led

leans in close to whisper
stammers to a sigh
sinks to quiet menace
and meets the camera’s eye
at once he’s kind of innocent
twice he’s sort of sly

a warning and a siren
leads you down
and leads you on
with a shout, he is triumphant
he can trump you
with a song

mutters and he stutters
mumble rises to a scream
so affected
so affecting
this breathless sexy teen

[whispers and he wonders
accuses and condemns
but merciful and mischievous
he saves you yet again

roars and rises from the ashes
phoenix soaring from the flame
he would be your gordon gano
and you would be born again]