Affliction
simplifies everything. Whether
to write out of agreement or skepticism is not my concern. Jon reacts
against the word “roots,” even as I take them to be mental
constructs. The octopus lives on a fence-line between body and body's
near absence, but when he catches your gaze, he sometimes reaches out
one long tentacle and
leads you to his nest. As close to aliens as we're likely to get. I vow to eat less tako, read
more Marcus Aurelius. At my age, I read wisdom literature more as
confirmation than as teaching, yet “to point” is the point of
transmission.
I point to what you know and then you know it. “It has
nothing to do with knowledge; it has to do with fantasy.” As if to
cut them in two, not fence-sitting as an “aesthetic ideal,” but
as a pointed hole in the crotch. You have a place in my circle, but
only after you've been shamed. It's the rite of return that hurts
most. The Clintons announced
they will attend the inauguration. What is the return to an absence taken?
--4
January 2017
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