TheLegendsLeague | Bryan Espiritu

The following is an excerpt from “Superstition” – a piece that I did in collaboration with Zachary Gray and Tom Dobrzanski of the band Lotus Child. It was performed at ’song room,’ an experimental music night in Vancouver in 2005.

The text was recently published in The Capilano Review (available in bookstores everywhere) and comes with a CD of the live recording from song room.

from Superstition

My way out
See me,
I’m singing;
if I don’t die standing I’ll die thinking

close my blind eyes. see not seeing.
undo sense and being
I’m smoked out the last of my presence
I broke out at last I’m imprisoned

I’ve played the game too. And when the moment presents itself, I wont make any choices. I’ll sit drinking from my cup of god, narrating something. Revolution has never been so far away.

improvise and die, write a poem about it
A dirty limerick
there’s a perfect sinister
merchant vender
lurking everywhere

just read the fine print

*in my script, there is a silver threaded spine spent spinning time and value and tying things and finding kings in palaces, housed in battles in and around their own shallowness, living around their own cowardice, avoiding their hopeful power, hopeful, sleeping soundly, deeply grounded over my way out and this is enough right now.