life of the mind

    

which differs from person to person yet still has    

     such similarities as to make from it a greater life

(although some have ideas of privacy or

     limits to their lives or their thoughts which are

so great that they have no extension)

could this be entirely performative, with no deep

    structure, nothing fundamental, supportive, basic?

(or in the search through untold excesses of

       activities are such questions in doubt?)

what of the nutritive organs?

    from where comes expansion?

brain & mind did a dance to find the what of existence,

the stance of extension, the distance of defiance, the lust

of romance, the romance of ideas, the leas of the past,

passing, at last, into a light of understood compassion

self & others separate yet joined in comprehension  

of mental examination, germination & interaction

is it possible that the felicity of “freedom”

    be denied in the complexity of a foundation

           sufficient to both build & continuously

    break down billions on billions of natural     

       activities immediately proceeding from this    

so that human endeavor can be precipitated

            out of these multitudinous non-iterative

repetitions including such  peculiar chances

      as the emergence of a democracy supporting

& supplying each citizen with the necessities

         of life in a continuity of co-operation

thus great commonwealths, engines, angels,

         psychopaths & feces spring from minds &

     bodies, disappearing in instants

             or generations:

                            spray over oceans

11.4.30

Judith Copithorne: I recently published ..where?...oh yes in 17 seconds the on-line magazine created by the redoubtable rob mclennan.  And these pieces were given a great twist by Roland Prevost the amazing web person who prepared these concrete pieces for the magazine by making them into little film clips!!