Monday, August 04, 2003

ii. reporting

“tell me who your friends are and i will tell you who
you are…”

what is in a name: if it signifies nothing,
if it is nothing but a label that one can conveniently
forget
along with the groceries and the daily news?

labeling is humanity’s kindness, the reason why
everything
has a name attached to it. philtrum, spigot, sadness,
Homo erectus,
butterfly, sex, love, heart evangelista, sigma beta
tau phi.

even he-who-created-all, supposedly the supreme,
supposedly the unnameable,
has a name:
G… O… D…

his infinite meaning cropped and crammed into three
letters
which could just as easily have read “dog”
to the next dyslexic.

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