consisting of phrases found in closed captions, Strunk & White’s Elements of Style,
and “Depersonalization: Standing in the Spaces Between Recognition and Interpellation”
by Orna Guralnik, PsyD, & Daphne Simeon, MD
aligned with the social order, so thoroughly mastered, [men continue indistinct].
a three-dimensional person becomes a mannerism;
to carve out a new sovereignty
[soft fingerpicking]
in which we breathe
exquisite sensitivity – the interruption is slight –
is of course equally correct. to fragment, to recast
the sentence, to redraft
the person, to separate hour
from minute. double-binds and ideologies
(as with a love letter) all have skeletons.
the ever-forming-interiority speaks a foreign language used to show ownership.
with the prosody of perfect language,
[pensive music] [tense music] [exciting rock music],
a repudiation of reality is permissible.
here we would like to mull over profound estrangement a common blunder
branded onto the psyche. as a means of evasion – colorless, hesitating –
[exhales, inhales]
[inhales, exhales]
[dust settling] [wind blowing] [static sounds]
[dull rattling] [rain pattering] [static crackling]
[door opens]
[door closes]
[strained][silence]
[clears throat] –
as a means of evasion, certain aspects of self become… unavailable.
we believe the ever-forming-interiority, used to show ownership,
should be rewritten
more relaxed than parentheses.
this sealed… self continues to reverberate unless
the offbeat becomes the unit of structure,
the nuts and bolts of a more intimate connection.
the special vocabularies morph in response as we [all exclaim]
our multilayered passionate truths, use the language well,
accept the whole body of it.
a gradual shift, a saving, [voices overlapping], [soft shocked laughter],
other thinking minds.
this is much better than a tight rein, a preoccupation with fantasy.
