Baudelaire’s Blues

Jim White
Oct 20, 2022

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Baudelaire meets Miles Davis meets David Lynch

A book of film, abstract, experimental, spontaneous

A human wants to use up all his talking
so to find peace in silence

Typewriter notes in a stream of consciousness yearning to become the ocean

No words needed, as the tenor sax cuts and splices film clips

The hero is anti-hero reading his letters aloud to ambient soundscapes, attempting to erase the memory

Not of the words, but to purge self from them
only utilizing when necessary and natural

It’s silent in the film, then machines enter the fray

Our narrator’s lips move but no sound emanates
he shifts to the beach to make words in the sand

After the surf washes them away, he dances the language with limbs twirling

Eventually swimming
no letters

Just body and water
The ocean in a cell

The cell, the ocean.

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Jim White
Jim White

Written by Jim White

Creation. Transformation. Metamorphosis play. Onward. To float over desert expanse, on a breeze.

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