justwrite 19 april

let’s talk about facts there are taxes collected and those are the ones we earned we paid our churning butter beans out of scenes and into the house we painted white we delight in our own fantasies of what it means to be successful and this has to do with content and context and who we are and what we think and who we represent and what they think and where we’re from and what that means and where we’re talking and when we’re saying what time it is and what the moment in history means the context you know and who’s listening and why and what they think themselves and what they think as representatives of others and where they’re from and having undone all of these strands we command meaning to come forth it is a performance art and it has much to do with itself it feeds its own health and here I can tell you that anything a politician says is political discourse and hence the language means linguistics the bits twisted in and out even when buying milk or something of that ilk when asking for change can we rearrange ourselves to listen on more levels we are shoveling it all into a great big pile but for me the golden mile comes when we’ve unstrung the truth that language for a political aim fits into the same game and we know you know I’ll show you what that can mean in a realistic sense the tense of changing policy and bringing it to life to send a letter to call a senator to give a speech to teach and to find we are blinded by delight with the sounds our own mouths make and our pens bake such tasty cakes when added into paper ovens with a little bit of heat and never will you eat something so alarmingly persuasive the linguistics so ridiculous and the persuasion so amazing you have got to got to have it or do it or believe it straight through it