Sprezzatura
excerpt from a work in progress
SPREZZATURA
is the cool of the hipster
studied carelessness and a cultural gauze whose practice was centered in the gaze
the cool effect
mask of the courtier
prehistoric dance-step of life esthetic
transience proved imperfection? PERFECTABILITY of the PERFECTABLE
never perfection and always in progress if not regression
hit the refresh
nothing lasts
nothing is finished
nothing is perfect
but the Cool thought their perfected cynicism was perfect
[fading autumn leaves] SOAVE OBLIVION
a dreamsequence in a piece of throwaway Venetian theater from
whenever
the tears of things and the tears in things are shown
how the eyes and the ears produced
enriched yet subdued experience of such a fine weave and fanning feather
from the basis of some simplicity of line and the effort that guides or has guided it
where grey always muddied the primary colors
a splash of bright elegant/rough
spontaneous or premeditated murder of color
a flash of light
from the darkening dim
restrained in general as a citizen, here on the street for example, but
WALKING A FINE LINE
being and beating the kiosk asshole in the queue, in the metrohole tunneling metropole
sprezzatura of affected appearing unaffected
nonchalance who was while having a nervous breakdown unfeared and fearing, trying to strike fear
into the hearts of
the EFFECTS of a culture of suspicion and deception even though a clingy little dayglow WeWorld
and a beingwith
like tangled clusters, schools of fish, influenced and influencers, entwining a vast human
shape, inscribing its features into the crust of the earth
oh the possibilities
the patina or wear on monuments unheeded or wear showing age and the subtle transience of the
whole circus
Cracks in the Sidewalk
repairs of the asphalt
passing along
nothing is perfect
nothing is finished
nothing enduring
SOAVE OBLIVION
just under the pavement
Another excerpt:
About the Creator
Rob Angeli
sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt
There are tears of things, and mortal objects touch the mind.
-Virgil Aeneid I.462
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