Tag Archives: postmodernism

META

META

much meta
in that
   stuff that gets
scribbled

debate even whether
it should go lower-case
or have a
capital L

but here I am
self-reflecting
self-reflexing
   at this point
in our history
which the post beyond
post becomes
worn through
dead usual

and me turning mirrors
into windows
walls into portals
door into
tesseract
     trying to think
multiple
                 dimension

but nothing going nowhere
just
     the old distraction trick
sleight of the hand

poetry so
soggy and wet
                    today
it
just soaks through the paper

(if there is still paper)

FLOOR MANAGER

FLOOR MANAGER

was asked
what is the
difference
between a poem
and a
soup can?

poem
and a soap box
poem and
a Rorschach blot

or should that
be blotch

seems like fractals abound
in all those tiny
peninsulas and
rough, rough edges

like constructing a flat
two dimensional map
or writing
          a poem
on the floor
of my brain

FELLOWS

FELLOWS

is dream
about the dreamer

or the dream?

  Kurt Godel
  Zhuangzi
               Mauritz
Escher
         Italo
          Calvino

help
   me out
fellows    please re-
        direct me

sorry to
         name-drop

this very thought
has got me tongue-
twisted                  lost
in the
      labyrinth
that is the brain

         and one if not
all of you

may just have the key

IN THEORY

IN THEORY

words
words
words

put horizontally
put vertically

are what he tells the President
he is reading

and what is the difference
between a prince and
a pauper and
a prince and a
president
at the end of the day?

you
ask.me

Oh let me travel to
the end of my leash, reach
the end
of my tether

sojourn in Paris, lounge
on the left bank
become
     eternal student

many a brilliant idea imported
along with appertifs
and expressos

as I chart my way
developing the system
to conquer
        limitation, figure out
what is
    different

a system so open and

yet subtle

it can pre-
          determine every nuance

eveb as it crosses the page idly
as any other text

word word word
         text

        (nothing we believe ever
outside a text)

TRANSPARENT

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?