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Drink it all in. Let the blood darken<\/p>\n
your face. You are breathing<\/p>\n
language substrate. You are walking through<\/p>\n
so many parts per million of undiscovered expression,<\/p>\n
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a hemisphere of unvoiced sound.<\/p>\n
The smallest unit of meaning is a germ<\/p>\n
and germs lurk everywhere,<\/p>\n
ink spit and typeface in mirrors.<\/p>\n
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They always did. They always will<\/p>\n
tempt you to assign value.<\/p>\n
When you do, you inhale invisible language dust,<\/p>\n
delusion molecules, fantasy atoms, fact iotas<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
and inflate yourself with them,<\/p>\n
build dreams, hang hope off them,<\/p>\n
act on them<\/p>\n
and then you fall.<\/p>\n
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There\u2019s frenetic mutation<\/p>\n
and any number of misunderstandings<\/p>\n
but if you\u2019ve tried to make sense before,<\/p>\n
you may have some immunity<\/p>\n
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or an addiction, incipient or chronic?<\/p>\n
There is peril in pulped data,<\/p>\n
bits and bytes,<\/p>\n
the d.n.a. of sentences:<\/p>\n
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adenine, the letters, guanine,<\/p>\n
cytosine, syllables, thymine,<\/p>\n
pulverised alphabet, spores of flower verb,<\/p>\n
proglottids of emotional worm,<\/p>\n
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\u2018a\u2019s and \u2018z\u2019s, silent and transparent as air in air,<\/p>\n
illness heralds, single cellular life.<\/p>\n
A body clearing its throat of irritant,<\/p>\n
life sentences pour from the mouth.<\/p>\n
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Fine numerals, hair breadths, fractional tolerances<\/p>\n
in creation soup, gamete ideas meeting,<\/p>\n
generating plagues and paradise,<\/p>\n
bugs, bug fixes, zygotes, cons and lies,<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
health bestowing stories, awesome description,<\/p>\n
vaccines and poisons, inoculation and possession,<\/p>\n
abrasive punctuation, transmogrifying radiations of fear and hate,<\/p>\n
the syntax of oppression, granular imperatives<\/p>\n
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all swirling inaudible, intangible in the bubble<\/p>\n
that surrounds you, caught in the filters<\/p>\n
for understanding, clogging their mesh,<\/p>\n
short circuiting nerves.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
The thread leading back through the maze<\/p>\n
into tree clean air, is fraying, is spat on and rotting,<\/p>\n
is being chewed by sentiment, untied by pride<\/p>\n
and going up in smoke.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
The signs billow, flutter and flow like substitute oxygen.<\/p>\n
You need to absorb some and live for a while in delusion,<\/p>\n
drink embarrassment and boost your signifying anti-bodies,<\/p>\n
take the rumours and the paranoias like strychnine tonic,<\/p>\n
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the fantasies as sugar, the lies as creative,<\/p>\n
the fear as a warning, the half truth as a half truth.<\/p>\n
You are breathing language substrate.<\/p>\n
You are walking through an atmosphere drenched<\/p>\n
in undiscovered expression,<\/p>\n
a hemisphere of the unsaid becoming extinct.<\/p>\n
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ZQ 170317 (UD June 2022 – was Drink The Embarrassment)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Drink it all in. Let the blood darken your face. You are breathing language substrate. You are walking through so many parts per million of undiscovered expression, a hemisphere of unvoiced sound. The smallest unit of meaning is a germ … Continue reading