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Ilse Aichinger, 1948 Lilly Axster Katherine Klinger Conversations   Hannah Arendt, 1950 Hannah Fröhlich Nicola Lauré al-Samarai Conversations   Simone de Beauvoir, 1949 Dagmar Fink Tom Holert Conversations   Billie Holiday, 1939 Jamika Ajalon Referenztext Holiday Rúbia Salgado Conversations   Adrian Piper, 1983 Belinda Kazeem Anna Kowalska Conversations   Yvonne Rainer, 1990 Monika Bernold Shirley Tate Conversations White Birch Blues Jamika Ajalon, 2012 play song Living room carpeted with fragile eggshells I took sanctuary under white birch branch pointed toward my wishing star and railroad runway leaves vibrating code knew of things untold. My midwestern white birch bears memory rings genetic encodings of past and future things: postcard executions digitized and viral traded along virtual streams next best thing since the zombie scene fiber time-firing squads electronic electrocutions beheadings, stonings… and the postcard series most sought otherwise known as the ‘organic crop’ leftover blues from the days of Billie top-notch critics praise its sanguine beauty its brutal simplicity ­— its rustic poetry as if tree, not noose was framing the story. / Jamika Ajalon ist Dichterin, Musikerin und Filmemacherin. Sie lebt und arbeitet inter­­­national. Redaktion: Jo Schmeiser, Sabine Rohlf Das Lied White Birch Blues ist work in process und zu hören auf: http://soundcloud.com/jamajalo... Der Text erschien am 12. November 2012 in der Berliner Musikzeitschrift „Missy“.