Stefa Govaart
Circumloqui
7:13
I receive emails from Rachel from the time I thought Nora was cool.
Rachel says that the key to US-American timbre is the schwa
(|ə|). It's everywhere she says.
Fungibility perversely manages desire.
The joke doesn’t land because no one hears the difference.
I wish I'd been intervened upon more/less when I was young;
The other night when I couldn’t sleep next to you I said I wanted to speak and you said I should/should not.
Delete as appropriate.
Writer's block is corporate language, burn-out is too.
A bilingual student writes litterature (sic). A sic reminds us that what was said, inclusive of its blunders, was effectively said and cannot be undone.
I don’t speak to the driver and 20 euros later, my silence feels vehicular, automatic.
In the light of the midnight moon, look at your own involvement in the disorder you bemoan. Speak it. No proposition is blameless.
Wir müssen, müssen Freunde sein.
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Circumloqui embeds rhetoric from a niche-famous Title IX Complaint in cues taken from political-lesbian and New Narrative discourse. Epistolary authored bisexuality is ultimately anchored in a Freudian footnote. I asked Diana to alienate timing and timbre. Part a reckoning with the past, part a letter to the hope that the word is true and arguing that it was not, I'm interested in what’s formative and lacking. Enunciations alone don’t suffice to speak or rather to announce!
Recorded at the Basilique de Koekelberg, January 2025.
