“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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