Hannes Bajohr, Timidities, Readux , 2015.
The pieces in Timidities are created by repurposing text gathered from websites—an erotic amateur fiction site, a BDSM forum, a popular sex advice column. Hannes Bajohr’s sculpted, striking corpus poetry allows his subjects to speak for themselves, while creating additional layers of meaning. Playful yet rigorous, they test the possibilities of digital writing and bring it into focus with an insightful literary gaze.
Hannes Bajohr’s Timidities is just a curio: a collection of “corpus poetry” compiled by algorithms that scan, say, the descriptions of the first 10,000 videos on youporn.com, eliminate obscenities, and then list the results alphabetically: “afro aged ally army asks auto away . . .” -
TIMIDITIES
at the same time...in and out of...i was going to
in front of me ... he was going to ... for the first time
the back of my...in front of him...i could feel his
i want you to...the back of his...the end of the
on top of me...was going to be...in front of the
in the middle of ... the edge of the ... he looked at me
i didn’t want to ... you want me to ... i could feel the
on the bed and...he said as he...do you want to
up and down the...i told him i...for a long time
i don’t want to ... he told me to ... on the back of
for a few minutes...up and down on...as soon as i
and i could feel ... after a few minutes ... at the end of
the middle of the...as much as i...the side of the
what he was doing ... i told him that ... i knew he was
if you want to...the front of his...the first time i
i looked at him...looked at me and...on the edge of
and i felt his...the other side of...the top of his
asked me if i...all of a sudden... a couple of times
i was able to ... didn’t know what to ... i was about to
i could see the...what was going on...by the time i
i said as i...was the rst time...on the other side
i didn’t know what ... and told me to ... the rest of his
back of my head ... he told me that ... i looked up at
down on the bed ... i don’t know what ... to be able to
for a couple of...his hand on my...for the rest of
to go to the...i could feel my...what are you doing
in front of his ... sat down on the ... look on his face
in the locker room...i had no idea...i went to the
i knew i was...i opened my mouth...was one of the
so that he could ... what i was doing ... it was time to
and i could see ... if i wanted to ... you don’t have to
know what to do... looked up at me...i told him to
other side of the ... so that i could ... in front of my
up and down my...on the floor and...as soon as he
i thought to myself ... he wanted me to ... i could tell he
he gave me a...looked up at him...he said with a
it felt so good ... i closed my eyes ... he didn’t want to
a couple of minutes...is a work of...the two of us
walked over to the ... i am going to ... he looked up at
for a few seconds ... told me that he ... got out of the
i got up and...are you going to...what do you mean
as he continued to ... he let out a ... smile on his face
a bit of a...a work of fiction...what do you think