TRANSPARENT

“Différance does not precede the elements of the opposition it makes possible; it is their mode of existence.” Christopher Watkin

don”t say
transparent

when best you can
aim for
ever hope to
achieve
is translucent
(thus ducking
quite neatly
the
thorny issue of truth)

but then there is context
and then there is history

whose meaning
is deferred until
you
write the thing

time lag
side step

every excuse for
spin, circumlocution, Derrida’s
Gitanes-smoking
deferral
of what if is

Oh you Cartesians, what could
be more opaque than
your
methodology of demons

heads spinning like tops
whipped by sticks

viciously, vicariously

what difference if the
fate is epic monotony

could your
metaphysic possibly make?

Published by Damian Garside