Michael March: In this endless desert of unreliable truth

When Jean Genet wrote, “beware of pure concepts”, he demonized the Nazi concept of “inner purity, outward strength.”

A man condemned to death imagining Funeral Rites from the sanctity of a prison cell.

For Genet:  

The poor rehearse the uprising. Short chapters of assassination. 

Rancid mutiny—sleeping at his feet. Blue constellations of calm impatience—dancing with slaves of immeasurable strength.

For Genet:

“Beauty has no other origin than a wound, unique, different, for each person, hidden or visible, that everyone keeps in himself, that he preserves and to which he withdraws when he wants to leave the world for a temporary, but profound solitude.”

How alone he remains.

In this endless desert of unreliable truth.