Issue 41: LOVE
I have the head of a Buffalo and the tail of a Fish. I plant Flowers of Love in the Mouths of Snakes. I want to eat your lips but only after you pull this Propaganda Instrument from my throat. I want to stitch a Document of Revolution with the Language of Love. I want to cut up the Architecture of Attachment for a new form of Devotion. A NEW WORLD ORDER.
To time travel, I place the Electric Blue in-between the Code Red and an ancient body of saltwater.
When I hang upside down from the Bo Tree, I want to love the meaning of my own name. If I slice open a Pomegranate, the seeds will fall out and flower into a mix-tape for ghosts. I follow you with my analogue camera when you dance three-legged in the Monastery. I want to dream in a Split-Screen Milky Way. I want to feed Little Blue Moons to the Winged Horse that lives in the Space Station. Did I not appear, Indigo-Skinned, with my Fork-Tongue Demons, in the pages of the Illuminated Manuscript?
Did you click on my Illusions?
Did you click on my Delusions?
Are you my Mirror?
{ Who is the Charlatan? The Government or The Sun? }
{ Make a wish while the Eye is sleeping }
{ The Snakes cough out Flowers of Love and eat their own tails instead }
{ I plant your texts in the Black Waters of Revolution }
{ I stitch footage of your hands into the Kalki Avatar Prophecy }
I was the Lizard. I was God and I was Future. Because I love The World I want it to reincarnate into a Utopia I hold in my hands. Because I love The World I cut off my own head with a handmade instrument to give to the People of the Swan. I could fit inside the Cup. I could fit inside the Mushroom. I am cutting out Cotton Clouds with Kitchen Scissors. This is an experiment. I am waiting for you at my Wedding at the End of the World, with my Sunglasses, my Swan and my Tape Machine. I have the heart of a Buffalo and the Song of a Fish. I loved you so famously. I loved you so everybody could see.
I am waiting for you at the End of the World.
Manisha Anjali
Manisha Anjali is a writer and artist. She is the author of Electric Lotus (Incendium Radical Library Press, 2019). Manisha has exhibited at Bus Projects, c3 contemporary art space, SEVENTH Gallery, Melbourne Writers Festival, Queensland Poetry Festival and Digital Writers Festival. She has been a recipient of BLINDSIDE’s Regional Arts Residency at Mooramong, a Writer-in-Residence at Incendium Radical Library, a Hot Desk Fellow at The Wheeler Centre and an Emerging Cultural Leader at Footscray Community Arts Centre. Manisha is the producer of Neptune, an archive of dreams, hallucinations and visions of the People of the World.
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