Blue Amadou: Rationalising a stepping away from rationality

We belong to a poetry club, 2019
Walk-in Studio, Milan
Artists: Giulia Astesani, Davide Meneghello, Roshana Rubin Mayhew
Curated by Beyond Beyond

The world around me is
in fact
oversaturated colour
promiscuously uncertain
provocatively absurd

It jolts me out of rationality
and hurls me on a detour
through flights of fancy

My habitual mind
made speechless

With no handrail of logic
to hold onto
and no rational line
to tread
I freefall
falling freely
my arms outstretched
into a cacophony
of unknowing

This undoes me

I instar
through expressways
to bubble universes
of what could be

Time folds over

My ability
to think straight
caked in a scattering of light

I feel my sides split open
my insides stain blue