I really like this remix of my poem The Baboushkas Inside by schizophrend. It’s part of the ccmixter Prism:Identity Project. Thanks to schizophrend for the heavy dubstep treatment. (Click on the title under the graphic to hear it.)
The_Baboushkas_inside-Schizophrend-ft-r… by schizophrend
The poem (originally titled as he wakes) was from my 2006 collection micromacro. It plays with the idea of Russian dolls and the concept that we contain all of the selves that we have ever been.
as he wakes
the baboushkas reassemble themselves. a frightened little boy at the core climbs
into the teenager with the painted-on angry face and permanent hard-on.
crawling into the ideals of some young teacher. each clothes himself
in another bodycasing, chrysalis reversed, until the final,
an ordinary middleaged man blinks,
wondering which if any
of the selves within
is him
© rob walker.
(First published in micromacro, Seaview Press, South Australia, Sept, 2006
ISBN 978-174-008-415-4)