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Raft of Corpses


 Wolfgang Mayer
  Berlin, Germany  


 

Border and order
Psychosis and risk
Specification and case

Solid blood
Solid raft
Solid corpses

Safe border
Made out of
An endless raft
Of dead black corpses

Army of floaters
Army of dead black
Army of black ice

Chain of rope
Rape in chains
Chain of wire

Darkness wall
Floating as
A border circumventing
Power bills and slimy coins


Published July 2015

Wolfgang Mayer

Author Image Wolfgang Mayer is part of Discoteca Flaming Star (DSF), an interdisciplinary collaborative art group that uses songs and other forms of oral expression, understanding them as a personal response to historical events and social and political facts. DFS present wonderful songs of love, consumption, fervour and feminism, carpets that help to cross burning bridges, fragile essays as drawings, and things that go together even though they shouldn’t...
twitter: @DiscotecaFS


  Berlin, Germany
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