Citizen Grammar
Brick wielders and career options
.loiter inside the futures
of syntagma - yes, Square (though the
.anarchists there mingle with monks)
- but also that primordial morph
.of subject-verb, predicated
before pounded bronze,
.exarchic blip on the surface
of unfurling might, history’s standard,
.parsed to say
the failure of might, its vacuity, our desire.
.We need a more determinate image.
Thank goodness at least
.for the first-person plural pronoun,
that generative collective assumption
.or trust that togetherness is grammatically
and therefore politically possible.
.Returning to Athens may help.
She was there in the cloud
.of fear when plexi-glass shields stormed,
forms of phenomenal presence,
.power flagrantly, merely physical.
I was not there to hold her arm,
.or pull her into the café
where voices continued, quietly.
.It is a moment I forever
regret not having, but the very
.impact of its told affect is itself
felt truth of rhetoric’s facticity,
.that grammar moves makes shakes
and bakes in the oven of dissent,
.opening wavy hot to futures with
collective intent ripening
.in the grain of a word,
a syntagmatic bud
.of revolt.
.loiter inside the futures
of syntagma - yes, Square (though the
.anarchists there mingle with monks)
- but also that primordial morph
.of subject-verb, predicated
before pounded bronze,
.exarchic blip on the surface
of unfurling might, history’s standard,
.parsed to say
the failure of might, its vacuity, our desire.
.We need a more determinate image.
Thank goodness at least
.for the first-person plural pronoun,
that generative collective assumption
.or trust that togetherness is grammatically
and therefore politically possible.
.Returning to Athens may help.
She was there in the cloud
.of fear when plexi-glass shields stormed,
forms of phenomenal presence,
.power flagrantly, merely physical.
I was not there to hold her arm,
.or pull her into the café
where voices continued, quietly.
.It is a moment I forever
regret not having, but the very
.impact of its told affect is itself
felt truth of rhetoric’s facticity,
.that grammar moves makes shakes
and bakes in the oven of dissent,
.opening wavy hot to futures with
collective intent ripening
.in the grain of a word,
a syntagmatic bud
.of revolt.
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