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Comment by Guido Vermeulen on July 9, 2012 at 7:08am

From CROW BLACK, USA

Dearest Paul Celan,

When the blackbird cries

someone dies in a concentration camp

somewhere,

alas!

Guido Vermeulen

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on July 9, 2012 at 4:08am

Haha Theresa you are an avatar of Barbra Streisand, oh FUNNY girl!

 

Working on Lumumba and Claus made me jump 2day to Toni Morrison.

Made collage called HOME. Her latest novel is called HOME. I hesitated buying it. Another book on how bad the black people were treated by the American albinos!? I know this stuff 2 much but when I opened the novel and I read the opening poem WHOSE HOUSE IS THIS? I said to myself OH GOD OF SURREALISM this is pure Magritte, this is pure magic!! So I used one of Magritte’s paintings as starting point of the collage: the house in the shadows of the dark illuminated only with a few sparkles of light while the sky is clear, full of light and clouds. Fantastic painting, one of my favorite Magritte’s, I can see it very time I want in the Museum of Ixelles, Brussels 1050!
I wonder if Toni knows this painting? Not that this is important. The key in Toni’s poem is transformed in this collage into a string instrument in stone, Magritte would certainly have approved this transformation. He did similar magic!(GV)

Comment by Theresa Ann Aleshire Williams on July 8, 2012 at 7:35am

What? Guido in a bad mood? I don't believe it! Lol!

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on July 8, 2012 at 6:31am

Collage

DEAR LUMUMBA, WHERE ARE YOUR TEETH?

THE GOD OF ALBINOS SITS ON YOUR CORPSE AS ON A PUBLIC TOILET (Hugo Claus).

See also next 2 entries and weep!

Except Yves M of course.

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on July 8, 2012 at 6:29am

On the assassination of Patrice Lumumba, 1925 - 1961 (decided by the CIA, UN officials, the Belgian government and royal family):

Four days later, two Belgians were sent to exhume the bodies, cut them up with a metal saw, crush the skulls, and throw everything in a tank of sulfuric acid. In a recent reconstruction of the facts carried out by the Belgian VRT network, Gerard Soete, a police chief who worked for the Katanga regime, confessed - as did De Witte - that he was ordered to make the cadaver disappear with sulfuric acid, a task he carried out with his brother. He added: "It was not easy, we had to cut them up. I kept two of Lumumba's teeth and a bullet covered with part of the skull as souvenirs." All of this was recounted without his showing any emotion.

(the whole plot was to disappear the body of the first leader of independent Congo and to erase all possible traces, including dental testimony, the teeth were thrown in the ocean, except the souvenirs Gerard Soete kept in a very morbid way. He confessed the truth just before he died and a had to testify before a parliamentary investigation commission;

GV)

More info:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrice_Lumumba

http://www.thenewblackmagazine.com/view.aspx?index=599

http://www.nigerdeltacongress.com/articles/assassination_of_lumumba.htm

I also want to pay tribute here to the Belgian poet HUGO CLAUS (1929-2008) who was one of the only Belgian  writers who exposed the attrocities committed by the royal family and government of Belgium in the Congo.

He wrote tribute poems to Lumumba. I scan below the last one he wrote (in Dutch and French translation by Marnix Vincent). I read this poem during a meeting to honor Claus’ memory after his death.
Frankly I have NEVER recovered from his passing and probably never will. 

Final sentence of this powerful poem:

The god of the albinos sits on your corps as on a public toilet

 

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on July 8, 2012 at 6:28am

LUMUMBA POEMS by Hugo Claus (1929-2008)

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on July 8, 2012 at 4:26am

Remade the entry on Ana because forgot to scan her mail art that triggered me into the short funny letter that follows

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on July 8, 2012 at 4:21am

FIGHT THE POPE collage I just made because I was in a bad mood after a PC crash. A proof of global conspiracy against independent minds (joke joke joke).

Linked this in my head with the French Writer ANDRE GIDE (1869-1951) and his «shocking» novel LES CAVES DU VATICAN (1914)

Info:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Gide

Comment by Lynn Radford on July 8, 2012 at 12:12am

Thank you for the warmth, Cleo! Looking forward to a bit of Literary ARcTion amongst my IUOMA peers. Although I've been teetering on the edge for some time, it must be said that Guido's Sisyphus lured me in....

Comment by Theresa Ann Aleshire Williams on July 8, 2012 at 12:08am

Guido...that's wild! I just wrote about Sisyphus the other day. Love that collage. Yay Camus!

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