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Tuesday, December 21, 2021

language bound


language tames certain forces of our being.

we are the cuckold mentality 

of spiritual enterprise.

we are dumfounded 

and presently preoccupied.

we are talking heads 

projecting shadows on walls

yet the closer to the light 

the larger the shadow displayed.

combust would be 

the miracle of transcendence. 

speaking in tongues

would require hearing in majestics. 

so when did we ever have anonymous 

as personable?

when did history ever convey 

the holographic truth?

it wasn't the author who failed us

but the nature of language and its linearity. 

the mind-feed is point and say.

what is the full-bodied animation in that?

even a practical imagination 

would have to conjure

and fabricate as for needs 

for connectives as fill-ins. 

we wanted vibes to assure us.

we wanted sparks 

of unspeakable intimacies.

we wanted primal 

before it gets translated into words.

we wanted sounds, 

yet not audible, 

to sing to us.

we wanted articulated immersion 

to overwhelm.

so, we have language as our crossing guards

and we have age-related relationships 

with words.

I would want each word 

to be a happy-ending

to the say of it.

but meaning is not that body of work 

in receivership.

language is paint-over the function 

of feelings.

language had emotional import 

before it got meaningful as override.

language is all about taste 

and little about nutrition. 

I would eat words 

if I could digest 

for feelings' benefits.

language is only a ticket to ride,

yet some other part of me, 

mostly unrealized,

will be going on 

that journey . . .

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