Words are saturated with time. We are saturated with words for we are temporal beings. Language is not merely a system of semiotics, it doesn't merely represent the world. Rather it constructs it, performs it, creates it and destroys it. It morphs aspects of our reality and forces them to filter through its phonetic and conceptual prisms. If language performs, then the dictionary of all possible words is the cosmos. Welcome to the world of language, the reality in which we live...

Monday, December 13, 2010

A small scratch

I didn't notice, each of your words was like small scratch and I felt like I was gonna get away unharmed, but by the time you were done I was empty and everything on the inside was out.
-disembodied poetics

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