Nine mesostics for Paul Newland

Matthew Lee Knowles

July 2008
 Particularly to
Art
Until
it is time to Love

Never
surE
for What
Lies
beyond A fence
Noise poetry
Defence

he Passed
A thought,
Understandably
Letting go

Nasty
bEautiful
Why can’t I
baLance
All
sectioNs
inDifferently

jumP
stAnding
a bUtterfly
watches from across a Lake

kNows how to be
of its timE
Which road to
waLk down with
friends At set periods
buNuel
coulD
four or five shiPs
thAt
Undo
Love

kaNt, there are two

things in lifE
Which don’t have to have meaning:
Laughter and music
no meAning
that is, iN order to give us very
Deep pleasure.

comPartments
As you wish
bUrning
Like they ought to

emergeNcy
Easily
shoWn a
Lecture
heArd
a Nd
avoiD

sharP
Architecture
Unifying the
traditionaL

torN
cornErs
Wilted
Lost
contAins
eveNts
konDo
 comPoser
fAther
hUsband
Liquid

resultaNt
nothingnEss
Winning by
Looking
Across
somethiNg which
never existeD

lamPshade
Antagonises
Under the light
it Loves to do that

woNderful
advicE cannot
be put into Words,
verbaLised
but put into Art
iN music
anD poetry

Permission
grAnted
YoU do not have to
take it, unLeash if you wish

I doN’t
[buckEt]
Want a sound to be
in Love with another sound
cAge
oNce
saiD