Steve McCaffery from SLIGHTLY LEFT OF THINKING same as books for the blind music for the deaf bridge always thought to be an elevator initially collapses but you ego subject integral identity central conscious you begin as feel it set against the problem you always think of as somebody else's body bodies body's body or bodies either here where you don't hear where not listening it begins to be alone alive just in time to stay waiting same as food for the ones without mouths same as philosophy wit essence presence just a moment ago ego move end subject same as identical amenable reliable same as magnifying practice signifying praxis integral horizontal vertical diagonal syllogistic monistic mnemonic anemic but forgets nothing of the mouth month countrified begin it all beginnings beginning to end with the upper palate its anger on profit its transmission it's locale the imaginal vaginal time that it left with Tibet in bed saying that too has a meaning having said it understands that having seen a sunset as a single pool of hesitation anticipated antiseptic Francis of ascesis the frog jumped from it and meant at a different time a microscopic eye maybe looks into the ear of a structuralist elephant kimono meanwhile meaning while the stethoscope insisting on the foot of a fly in all of this we are simply spacing how meaning fades to become unlike the verb of rubber the adjective stays plastic as utensil more as than hardly ever that accidental slide that morning meaning moves to the side that historically kills Vespasian politically slipping up in on against what only it of all of you know can never be knowledge of the kind that Plato anchored in Plotinus which is also why some words break rank same words concatenate insist how logic won't never let go of the metapraxis body thing about things never forgot never precise over where it's starving polyglot polylogue on its mind's own surplus letting language shit both kissing a child and killing a child poisoned positions separable insensible man at a door when it opens up causes laughter to come to curse laughter to cure laughter cause curse cure Next |
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