Sunday, April 16, 2006

this poem is going to get me picked up by spam censors

hypertextual life

what? you thought this was a poem
about reality
about space and/or time
future/past/present
it is
but it's also about smooth skin
of a soft shoulder
to lean my head against
for that one everpresent instant
and yesterday has no memories
it's only you

why? is this different?
words strung together
like pony beads
on a leather string
a neverending chain
a labyrinth of signifier/signified
and yesterday has no memories
it's only you

when? that moment when
you finally look through the clouds
and see there's happiness after...
all
you wonder why
this epiphany took so many years/seconds
while dry tears stream down an empty face
and yesterday has no memories
it's only you

1 comment:

tiffany said...

Honestly, on most of the links I didn't read more than the headings. On some of the more important links, I looked at the content on a number of similar sites to make sure I found the one that most closely reflected what I wanted to refer to. I guess someone could read as much or as little as she or he wanted to--that's kind of the point. Meaning is something created, and however much meaning a person wants to find in something is the amount of meaning I wanted them to find (if that at all makes sense).