September 26, 2014

"War With Words"


 “War With Words”

cji
9/27/14

Arguments over usage
claims and counter-claims
polemikos in all things
stealing and removing
never replacing as is
interpreting to one’s will
bring contention/confusion
meeting the indifferent
where there is no meaning
usage but a mirror broken
losing all sense or content*
therefore to live forever!

Note: Surprised none asked who the Russian Poet was – Vadim Sherschenevich (1893–1942) “in the name of modernity, or futurity, the liberation of words from the burden of meaning. ‘Free the words from their sense and content, which have stuck like chewed paper about the word’s pure image … There is not, and should not be, *any sense or content in art,’”  (Quoted by Alexander Kaun, Soviet Poems and Poetry (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1943), 15


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