“Whatsoever ye do unto him ye do unto Me.” Conceptualize
font, italic, quotation, capital. Assume you and I are mirrors
installed in each other's thumbs,
that we ride the bus
to work and
see first passengers asleep, left eyebrows cocked against gravity. An
apostrophe presumes
possession or contraction. The birth of the sentence often depends on
contractions or on
sounds that travel over
periods.
Who knew it's easier to throw
a deflated ball than a hard one? That what we leave out becomes a
mark that tells us what isn't
there? That
anger fills the space between question and no answer. Tell me where
in your body you feel it, what happens when you express it. It
happens for me at the corner of Makahiki Way and South King Street
the night Bill 6 passes the City Council. A
middle-aged man sweeps the sidewalk outside the tent that he and his
wife put up at dusk. No
person shall sit or lie.
--7 May 2015
2 comments:
I LOVE this. I've read it four times over the last few days & love it more and more each time. The ending is fantastic. My only suggestions is that the two sentences on grammar back-to-back seems to be too much, and by the second sentence "The birth of the sentence..." it doesn't feel as new. "An apostrophe presumes..." and "The birth of the sentence" should either be collapsed into one sentence or spread apart. This is minor - it's great.
I am so mad about that bill, such a dog in the manger thing. "Conceptualize the font" is brilliant, especially as it hits me again when you get to birth; I do think of font as a baptismal one (conceiving matters!) at the same time as it's a letter font.
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