Concentrating on the metaphysics of love and loss; Bragg's multi-disciplinary practice spans writing, curation, live performance, still and moving image. Currently based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand. Bragg is co-founder and a current facilitator of the Artist Run Initiative MEANWHILE. Contact - jordanabragg94@gmail.com And I can highly recommend the end I lost my life poolside Hard white ceramic tile squares Together by dark blue By a turquoise detail to die for A crystal chandelier suspended by nothing but capital and a necessary belief in Teenage Fantasy In opulence and opal Anti-Gravity Lethal And there is more to beauty than revering it Don't you know It is as trustworthy As truthful as anything My vision clears every time I see anything Now we walk the hounds of love out-front It does not have to be beautiful Beauty is a fact of life among many others But everything is more expensive and manufactured for less above a broken neck And nothing will ever be the new black Not even hot pink against a bright blue sky A particular polishing compound Wait go back I wasn’t listening What does sensitivity really get me Wait go back I wasn't listening Only projecting The pressure to the knee was by far the worst part Blood pooling by my mother’s side And she speaks to me nightly Do they know Who are they to throw you Who sent you here A fate worse than death is being caught in the wrong shade of red A personality so last season it only serves to be blushing The wrong shade of red And describe it as best you can A pressure against the chest like a hammer Yes, like a full tool case against the brain Risking an aneurysm and an epileptic fit just to be here It's not a bad place it's a scared place And you came here to hide from 360 degrees Fears in 3D Honey, I think you better go home I can see your two-dimensional worldview all the way from over here And run to religion as if it were forsaken Until you can find somewhere to hide from 360 degrees inside a 3D structure And tell the cops to stop bending her arm back like that Tell them to stop They won't listen to me Fine, find someone here that they will listen to Tell them to stop Wait go back A particular polishing compound What does sensitivity really get me Team Jennifer Just mirror it back to me Mirror it back to me Or mirror me back to me Good god give me something Anything to work with And daylight breaks, I know You think. Oh, I couldn't possibly I know, you do the impossible every day Every day since you realised daylight does not belong to anyone in particular But midnight does I am midnight at your most alone And your 1am, 2am, 3am, 4am Could be your daybreak breakdown I am darling, don’t think for one second that I won’t And the room starts to spin, and I think JFK me[i]. Honestly, I’d rather And my condition is I see so clearly, I see too clearly, so full of intentional action And you are the angle I see from, The horizon line of my eye is in your hips as I bend you over And “I don’t get heartbreak because I don’t get heartbroken” [ii] The new convenience of abandonment Who are you in debt to Daddy React to me Marina’s performances allow her to pre-empt the disaster that experience has taught her to expect[iii] Now I'm bleeding on the people, I forgot that I’ve still got an open gash[iv] And practically There are only so many jokes to be made before heartbreak sets you a new reality You have one second to decide I can only hope you catch the kind like rapture, not Rigor mortis The worst part is it doesn’t even end you Heartbreak requires a Horror Whatever mentality At your expense I keep trying to paint a pane A stained-glass window between you and new reality Why reserve rose tinted for pleasure It’s a very expensive thing to do I consider myself limitless Living in a superimposed state of being Relentless Full of the kind of things you like And I want to win prizes The kind no one can recognise directly because I’m always sitting sideways ready to turn away And how fucking dare you Your audacity proves nothing other than your incapacity to care for yourself And believing you have no one is a very particular sensitivity isn’t it Brad and Angelina starring in a film together as a married couple who want to kill each other Jane Smith asking John Smith “Still Alive, Baby?” after firing three shots at him Brangelina is dead And there were never any TEAM BRAD t-shirts And gloves off claws out Brad is a Sagittarius, Angelina is a Gemini and Jennifer is an Aquarius. So that whole thing makes complete sense, an earth sign wouldn’t be caught dead anywhere near that explosion And Madonna is a Leo and Britney is a Sagittarius and onstage at the 2003 Video Music Awards they pashed while Christina (a Sagittarius) watched. So that whole thing makes complete sense, an earth sign wouldn’t be caught dead anywhere near that explosion And no mercy Cars drive by a bloodstream And I’m too busy to be concerned Pretending to be Morticia Addams just for fun [i] Tinashe (2018). No Drama, Joyride Album. [Youtube] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vAh7jTAkCKc. RCA RecordsPresident
John F. Kennedy - assassinated as he rode in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas. November 22, 1963. [ii] Extracted quote 13.11.18 with Priscilla Howe [Facetime] [iii] Fischer, J (2018). Psychoanalyst meets Marina Abramović. SCHEIDEGGER AND SPIESS [iv] Smith, J (2017). Fallen, SYRE Album. [YouTube] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fof9lHaApXc. MSFTS Music and Roc Nation
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Joseph Shaw
27/2/2019 04:59:08 pm
I love the poems the second one could be split into stansa's may be six. Other than that I love them. To wrute good poetry you have to read good poetry, read Janet Frame, she is the best New Zealand writer of them all ! Believe me read Janet Frame.
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