Symbolic Rearrangement

phishgod

Symbolic Rearrangement

Rearrange
the symbols
which control
your lives,
--cut to:
images of
the job,
mortgage,
family,
might of nations,
organized religions
that enslave
the consciousness,
bounds of
academic freedom,
bondage of restricted
visions defined
by words
and culture,
concentration
camps of prevailing
community standards
designed to guard
against prurient
interests or free
expressionism,
words encapsulated
by borders of
imagination,
--fade back,
images of space-time
no longer constrained
by limitations
of the Big Bang,
the inner nano-
second hiatus
between free
form flow
of thought,
the gate,
the door,
the window
to the unknown,
where few have traveled,
and fewer have returned,
and, for but a brief
flicker of life speed
illusion—know
the meaning: “freedom”,
forever defined by
the is
(and not)
of our indoctrinations.

Rearrange the images,
control symbols; not:
your lives controlled.

--June 12, 1993
@pth

EvilToasterElf

That is I think the perfect title for the piece, I'm going to try and write one of these some point soon and get back to you

FinsburyParkCarrots

That Walcott poem again:

"But that's all them bastards have left us: words."

I like your use of words, phishgod, very much. It's what we have.

phishgod

Thanks Fins, for the read, comment and the inspiration!

Yes yes! The Wolcott again!

I actually had to go search the hard drive of my old box for this tonight, but I was thinking about it all day at the office after our earlier dialog about the symbolic on C's Belfast thread.

(Although, I actually spun this after reading Burroughs, and to actually mention him in the same paragraph as Wolcott would probably get my most beloved C. very out of sorts, and of course I would agree with her that they are not comparable, but even she would probably have to agree this piece was on point.)

Yes words! Use them or lose 'em! Or so I've always thought, eh whot?
Cheerio--
P.

FinsburyParkCarrots

I've finished work and study and it's quiet on the board tonight, isn't it? The one day off you get, and everyone's disappeared.

More words, please.....

phishgod

Hey, Fins, I just caught your reply to (the McGough citation, which ever post that was with the bushorchimp site?), but just like last night, C is calling me, and if I don't log off now she' says she's going to go pick dyao & head off on her way back to CA, so you can have the last word tonight, & I will check it out tomorrow....

FinsburyParkCarrots

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