Tuesday, January 3, 2012

My Ineffable, Philosophia



“And still skating by the concept
Vicarious assimilation of life
Lingering ephemeral
Thine eyes reflect my self obsession
My awkward silent hues
A forced epitome for structures’ sake
Evoked in concept ghosts of dreams
Shrieking underground
And losing sense of delineated time
To abandon (her/sense/time)
Is the commission of suicide
I’ve no reason to believe
But enjoy the life of night
Its ringing
And ringing”*

… and ringing louder still in the silence of a moment crossing worlds.  Philosophie the flittering trivial nonsense that you’ve abolished in the want of things.  In authenticity, strung to the values of a waste.  The power of the people contained in our aspirations. 

But in the language is an emancipation of this people’s strength.  A backdrop of silence the impotency of word as in legal confrontation.  All a veil of poetry.  We must rather measure our translation as a silence filling sound.  Overcoming the gods of sense and their superstitious ruse that confines our language to our written codes…

Again…

“I do believe
That in the pit the darkest core
Of western rationality
Is the quiet of the eastern shore”**

… the dissolution of corporate personhood an incessant reiteration, that is both legally defined and culturally incorporated in the language of a free people, as if freedom were too much to bear, too light to grasp.

Alas, we must not be cowards when we make our lace to the airs of our externalized humanity.  Rather, we must persistently embrace new life… bien, bien… à bientôt.

*Excerpted from Tango de la Materia, Copyright © 2011 Jason Greendyk
**Excerpted from Šariš, Copyright © 2011 Jason Greendyk


Jason Greendyk, www.jasongreendyk.com

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