Language as authority
Spoken words woven through a brooding heaven
The dark Eden remains the box in the brain
Remains a spectacle of conscience
Witchcraft or your own personal pornography
This truth is beyond a suitable extension
This truth is uttered in veiled acrimony
Words written in the arrangement of a shadow
The arrangement of a box in the brain
When the direction is just like that, just like that
When the words are spoken just like that
All is empty, clear, and self-illuminating
Defining the spectacle, authority by default
Conversation as compromise, self-doubt sustains
All this spoken as the written word binds
To all that is empty, clear, and self-illuminating
To simply say when doubt arises - the town burns
The community rises hysterically against itself
The words shoot out like cannon balls and float
To the ground like pages from an abandoned book
What a ruined reliquary, your voice, your tiny, harmless words!
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- Peter Ciccariello
http://invisiblenotes.blogspot.com/
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