Saturday, January 20, 2007

Don’t do this at home





Don’t do this at home


‘To imagine a language is to imagine a form of life.’

Wittgenstein


Keep the air under palm,

Let it press your hand & spread fingers:

No relief though—unless the Zephyr performs acts of his own

Do not count beads as droplets pouring from stratosphere:
This kind of matter is but metaphor
And no metaphor dwells where the Being dwells…
Imagery’s pocket is full of metaphors—cohorts of lost corpses.

& bet only on the “square-thumbed marble-player.”

He is the only one who knows the path

From the mountain high down to the temple’s heavenly elementary particles

& back


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