Nils HM Geylen


Sic State Apparatus, Sic Urbe Relicta


	IMPORTANT: citizens [ citoyen-ne-s ]
tip-offs on foreign agents or breaches of security are 
now eligible for spiritual rewards and certificates of 
appreciation—or material rewards of cash up to 
100,000 yuan	( exercise restraint )



	blowing [ on souffle ] through concrete : 
	deep deep envy
reclock & turn transit demise, i—
[ on a peur ]
		thus ( potential rise )

	gnawing [ chien mordant ] at ribs : 
tender tender wound
reverse & suspend exit spite, u—
[ on lâche prise ]
		thus ( capital flight )

	SCREAMS [ LES CRIS ! ]—if it won't burn 
maybe
		it'll wear off in your dead dead bed

	like father like son like
	labor exclusion
inbred the federation machine
exhale a Reich—[ L'EMPIRE COMME LE PÈRE ]

	a corruption / lamentation
	the Heidelberger corps
		vas-y / gloria Evropa

		[ FIN ] 



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	a crisis however hard it tries
will always be soft
does the crisis make you shiver ? 
does it ? 

	the slowdown is not tough ! 
the slowdown is exceptionally fond—( are you upset 
by how painful it is ? how
fond really ? )

does it tear you apart 
to see the slowdown so fond ?

( can you slow down the tearing of a somebody once 
so fond_a-crying ?—over a salad of despair— )

	no 
don't believe that unemployment 
is high ? the unemployment is little 
beyond belief

	—now 
trivial is just the thing 
to make me wonder 
if the unemployment is minute

	wonder if the crisis
		even rises 



mode:avion
for Victor Miesel


		over high
as the crow flies the widebody
educes its self-machine 
as if

descending
a roar nu-beast powerful
animal symbol as the sword
	pierces

&
smiles and belongings free
belts & souls aboard accounted
real as the water jesus walked

once mighty the raven-stare 
figuring you tiny in your dark
knowing in being measured  

	wing-clipped everett
billion-spun myth

Nils Geylen was raised between the arctic and the equator and is currently stuck in Belgium. His writing explores currents of culture and convention in a transitioning society beyond the postmodern. His work investigates the boundaries of experiment and intelligibility.

The writing is slow; nevertheless he has published sparingly in a number of print and online publications in the Low Countries and internationally. He is involved in literature promotion through literacy inclusion and shared reading.

 
 

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