Meditations of Nero

from The Allegory of Youth by Axel Kacoutié

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I bought a horse, not a real one, and I painted it black then named him Nero.
I'm not going to tell you why.
It's for a poem and still I won't tell you why.
But the answer's in the words, hidden in the open.
One of my neighbours has a son who's autistic and says that he sees reality better than all of us.
Then for the remainder of our conversation we mused in silence listening to Isaiah walk around saying again and again in his own language, "I have a dream".

(Meditations of Nero)

Black hides imperfections - black makes things perfect.
Am I the seat of my lover?
Black like the night Mare you once dreamed.
Black like the Cosmic, mystery, the Unseen.
Black like God. Not like white but Beginning and how it will end and start again.
What art thou, Dark horse?
Black like Nazgûl or Dementors.
Black like Black Speech, not like slang but from Mordor but also like slang.
Black like Black Death, not like '46 to '53 but ‘16, ‘15, ‘14, ‘13, ‘12...this century across a sea to a land where a people cannot breath.
Black like S.I.L.E.N.C.E. Stop, ignore, listen, empathise, never complain...Eat blackberries, drink blackcurrant not like black hunger with black flies on black eyes. Not like black hunger with black eyes on French fries. Morley's chicken or sirloin steak, black eyes on French fries.
What art thou?
Black like clutched purse when seeing black.
Black like nigga.
Black like nigger.
Black like clutched handle of a blade in a pocket of a doer not a talker. Banger. Officer. Fight or flight we are all scared.
Black like fear.
Black like sin.
Black like holy.
Black like the Moor who's sooty bosom bleeds life with love - or folly.
What art thou?
Black like deeds not like skin.
Am I the seat of my lover?
Black like magi or the muse who beheld thy face.
Black hides imperfections - black makes things perfect.
Black like life.
Black like the night's Plutonian shore.
Black sees light.
Black is light and understands it.

Black is Nero.
by Axel Kacoutié

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from The Allegory of Youth, released March 18, 2017

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Axel Kacoutié London, UK

Axel Kacoutié is a poet and composer from South London. He uses poetry, music and art to explore themes on love, identity and the human condition, bridging the gap between the mundane and the unseen.