contibution # 3b | READING 2 / SATURDAY EVENING | jozef van rossum

'the roles/rolls/cylinders'

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jozef van rossum was the second of three invited poets/writers to make a contribution. _on february the 22nd, he spoke about roles/rolls/cylinders, clothing name tags and the presumption of a voice.

here's something
about my grandfather's (frans claes) dictaphone-equipment:
my mother told me, that it first moved
to janus van domburg (film critic)
and from him to
anton van duinkerken (writer)
who's hand was temporarily paralyzed
so he couldn't write

then
it disappears
from sight,
that equipment,
like a balloon,
you can follow
just for a moment.

[jvr]

"of course i knew there was nothing audible on the cylinder, and that's fine. _or, there actually ís something on it, namely: someone's silence. _that's even better. _and with that silence, at least with a fraction of it, ladies and gentlemen, i now proceed..." [jvr]