I like _go-kart jurisdiction_ and Keston's take on the rest of the book.
Keston, two of the questions you articulate at the end of your first post on
this subject - 'if her life is this fast, whose lives are therefore much
slower? Do they appear in implied counterpoint?' - might well be answered,
for this poem, in this poem. This is just an entirely banal tiny
practical-critical point but the reference to "egos in the lines" at line 16
which provokes the switch from accelerated description to explanation in the
following line "& that's why I love you exacto knife" might bring together
necessarily blurred reference to the welfare lines (or, say, a queue at a
soup kitchen, if you can still make that distinction in (e.g.) contemporary
L.A.) and to the line-long measures that make up the poem and its consistent
speaker, so that you don't have to reach for preterition or 'implied
counterpoint' to have the poem justify itself - the point might be that the
impossible and unjust and understandable urge towards an unprincipled and
frictionless egression - to the revolutions per minute where individual egos
become an undifferentiated continuity - (on the way to this computer I sped
up to avoid ethical panhandling by a gauntlet of Amnesty International
canvassers) IS impossible because the Real won't WAIT to be implied. Hang
on, where did that sentence begin?
The idea of exalting or being able to exalt fast "fun" over slow "reckoning"
(accounting for, and the possibility of retributive justice at its back) is
cutely ironized and explicitly criticised: "I'm the lazy quick type" -
phhhhh, good poem, this just to say I like it,
all best
robin
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