A poem inspired by the Matthieu Nieto's choreographic project “I Came Here to Talk”, where he highlighted identity politics and representations of the body through his own personal journey in relation to whiteness, masculinity and (hetero)normativity.
the Mule
is in self-defiance
roaming around the enclosure,
not carrying burdens
of compliance,
wearing a free and light posture.
stubbornly walking
his own way –
feeling himself
like a donkey.
frivolously running
and jumping high –
feeling himself
like a horse.
it’s jumping as high as the height of the fence, yet , it wouldn’t surpass –
consuming the grass
other mules in the lawn
exhibit the pride in the shows of their own.
consumed by themselves,
they feel exceptional ones –
leaving unturned all the stones.
solely constructed
by mistakes of the past –
nothing else that they do want to know.
the External scenery the Mule disregards,
and the stories
imposed withal –
in its movements reveals what the Internal dictates,
telling the story
of its Own.
#MANIFEST-E/0
#hybridization
#multiplicity
#nonspectacularity
Nikita Khellat, 19.10.2018
