VI
Literacy.
When the customary routes
have been blocked, one turns
to writing
as an effort of escapism
She wants to know if it's
one of those numerical puzzles
what the adults do
entertainment, routines,
the daily news --
No, Debord, and the language's
foreign. A muddled translation
dating from a different era
And it all has been superseded
the interest must be for
historical reasons only
I want to explain
But you don't teach nihilism
to a child of six
when the gift of reading
is a magical one. Even single words
7.3.2006
VII
Working with marble
poetically presented
I yield myself to the flow
of the visual narrative
suffer the determined
blows of the hammer
and invite the chisel
But the textual references
are harder to follow
even when you think
you're a poet
A surrender is called for
but how is one to accomplish this
when the signs fall back
further and further
in the wind of time
And interpretation and
commentary
claim the place
in gradual steps
7.3.2006
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