Tuesday, June 14, 2016

Language


Language

When in our experience
a perception arises
within consciousness
(always within!)
this, my friend
 is the real Big Bang..
The sudden dividing
perceiving of 10,000 things
clamors for identification
 for nouns and verbs..
Willing thought complies
with a full array which
 dictionaries dutifully record..
But, as you can see
with this turn of events
head-splitting problems
befuddle our lives..
A perception here
is not a perception there
and a new Big Bang
makes another demand
and off we go:
new nouns and verbs..
And things get worse:
 nouns and verbs
as spoiled children
claim to have
 an identity their own
claiming to be
the world we see..
Remember now 
those perceptions arising
those 10,000 things..?
alas, forgotten..
Ahhhhh..language...!

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