Name: The wall on which I leave my edict (Agustí Bartra)
Duration: P00H05M29S
Description: Ona Balló Pedragosa reads Joan Brossa’s ‘saltamartí’ / ‘Tumbler’ ... Agustí Bartra, read in English language translation by Jon Auman ... Aidan Moffat sings a variation on the traditional Scottish bothy ballad, ‘I’m a Working Man’ ...

The wall on which I leave my edict (Agustí Bartra)

from Price Poetry (or the Left Ventricle in Times of Trouble) by Dominic James Jaeckle

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Ona Balló Pedragosa reads Joan Brossa’s ‘saltamartí’ / ‘Tumbler’ ... Agustí Bartra, read in English language translation by Jon Auman ... Aidan Moffat sings a variation on the traditional Scottish bothy ballad, ‘I’m a Working Man’ ...

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A doll
that has a
weight in its base and that
tipped from its vertical
position, rights itself
again.

The people.

•

The walls!
The walls!

The wall on which I leave my edict
in words that belong
to nobody and to all of us.

They call me Agustí;
Bartra is my family name,
a child of lightning
and unvanquished waiting.

Invisible and known,
I return like a swallow
of thorns and glass.

Oh, let me, gently
alight on your right-hand side,
my Homeland,
and sleep to the sound
of wings and the streets.

I've spoken,
and I won't sleep.

•

I'm a working man, as you can see
You'll find an honest lad in me
I'm never nasty
Never proud
I never shout the odds too loud

I never spend what I've no got
I've barely got a pissin' pot
But day and night,
through thick and thin
I'm working life out to keep life in ...

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from Price Poetry (or the Left Ventricle in Times of Trouble), released January 10, 2023

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