And all gone down, in the image, Peter.
I like the edenesque helmet floating away, lost.
In the poem, I find the variations on 'is'/'are' etc get in the way; it
would 'freeze' the whole better without them for me....
Doug
On 10-Dec-06, at 11:40 PM, Peter Ciccariello wrote:
> 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!
>
> Language as
> authority<http://www.cgi7.com/peterimages/language-as-authority2.jpg>
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> - Peter Ciccariello
> http://invisiblenotes.blogspot.com/
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