Took the time to read the 11,000 words. A discipline required for linear presentation on a non-linear medium. So much information in each sentence - allusions to illusions. Density of meanings makes one feel dense at times. I'm sure I missed....it slipped past the crannies....did I ever know all of the referents or has the brain sieved?
"A signed original" on internet....Walter Benjamin on steroids....the medium has an aura.
Thanks brudda waldo for sharing this. Much respect.
Manifesto |
This is exactly what I mean. In the middle |
of the half-acre dump, piled with broken bricks, old tires, |
and the street sweeper’s waste, two bright sunflowers |
stand beatified in the slant light of morning. |
We must over and over again bear witness |
to the wonder of this world. After the bone-rich |
ash is shoveled from the ovens, after the scarred witnesses |
have told their terrible tales, after the weapons have been gathered |
and burned, someone must still have voice to sing. This |
is the only ground we have to stand on, this |
scorched and defiled garden. It is here we must raise |
the cry until our throats tear with the fierce hymn of praise. |
Dan Lewis is a poet residing in Worcester, Massachusetts.
My God, i just keep being awakend, amazed and for this I am grateful . A beautiful and melancholy poem - when will we have original thought,original ideas - Or should I say may I have the good fortune to meet all the inventors and originals thinkers right now
Thanks
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