r a k e t a GOLD - Everything Matters


What matters to you?

Everything matters.

Even stickers, that "ok-stamp"

that very personal way to be unpersonal?

Ever tried it!


r a k e t a Gold attacks gently

Invades the city with gold stickers,

Like medals rained onto the thoroughfares

Medals stamped out

on the street

             on things,

                  on houses, 

                            on lamps,

                                 on restaurants

on sunset boulevard

on hollywood boulevard

on silverlake boulevard

in neutra's house

in wrights's house

in that city of golden angels

which we all know takes over our imagination

chandler in the hills

kerouac on the road

Ever tried it!

Something, anything

        that can mean something else

                                 if but for a moment

before the drive by, roll by, slow bye bye

                                   of that dream of all cities

air conditioned to the only future we have

Ever tried it

Go gold

           put a sticker on your favourite place

   thing

          house

                friend

                         shop

recommend angels and street corners

recommend anonymity until you recognise it

become your own city guide

                                       the golden guide

the statuette

        the oscar of stickers plastered

until the city glistens

          from those who get to know each other

that haven't had a chance

until the city glistens

         from places that had no friends until

they were tagged

until the city glistens

         from the invisible events

that always mean something more than we think

until the city glistens

        from the children that label their first time

for it to remain their first time

for it all to become memory

Everything matters

Ever tried it?

Ever forgotten it?

Ever protested against the light?

Ever seen a mountain that is not a mountain

                          in swedish fjäll, not berg

a portable moving stage,

         a fold-up-and-around stage

on the back of a pick up

              a room to go around

where everything matters

Ever tried it?

where the last century is reduced

        to 2 minute lectures

                    from the back of the pick up

where architecture is involuntary

         until you decide when it is not

where the pick up arrives at LAX

         collects the visitor

and sees the gold orbs guiding

         everyone into the city

where everything matters

and everything is matter.

Ever tried it?

r a k e t a Gold

r a k e t a recommends in L:A 

a r a k e t a fanzine...

    then the rockets returns...

the mountain folds up.

       the visitor leaves the city

and we all call on the angels once more

   to resist what we should never call

 poetry in the first place.

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RC/r a k e t a 21.12.2005