Q & A saves the day?
….Q & A saves the play?
……..Q & A generates queeries as theories?
…………Q & A puts everything inside play ((poetree) participation))
…………und zo weiter? ya vole!…and so ever wider — yes, in deed
layered identity peeled away by ouzo in Sohos?
singing in Greek, then in Slavica, after midnight in Turkish
are the core melodies heard in different lingos in Epirus?
any Pontic mahala in Ioannina?
how can the inside of Angie’s cheek be called 52%
TuscanEtruscan?
was it leonard bloomfield’s granny who spoke french to the descendents of confederate aristocracy, german to the shopkeepers and polish to the descendents of slaves, seeing blacks as slavs?**
when people don’t have much to belong to they can go for a devil like adolph?
when people don’t feel the pull of participation in playfull poetree
…………………………………………………………………they can go for a dolt like
drumpf
without a deeply local and layered identity they can go for a dame like thatcher
missing loyalty to a club or a team or a dream or a scene and a style?
…………………………………………………………………..they can go for fascism with a smile
will a unified theory of usness in the expanding universe
….be both micro and macro?….i think so
……..be about process as play?….ask minnie minoso
……..((or chico carasquel) handing off to my main man nellie fox))
…………is all matter consubstantial? ashes to ashes dust to dust?
……………………………………………………must all iron skillets tend toward rust?
…………………………………………………….does gravity have something like thrust?
………………………………………………………will all civilizations/empires decay?….i’ll say!
the sooner the better
** “Bloomfield defined meaning as the situation. For Bloomfield, meaning consists in the relation between speech and the practical events that precede and follow it. A linguistic form is “the situation in which the speaker utters it and the response it calls forth in the hearer”(1933, p. 20).” steve swell’s C/R better by far
………………………………………..juxtapose this with Schneider’s “Culture don’t butter no bread.”
………………………………and Stosh Diamond’s “Civilization originates in conquest abroad and repression at home.
Each is an aspect of the other.”
many repetitions of Stosh and Schneider*** along with
More Of Mothernature — how do we midwife it everywhere?
….planting seeds & pits & stems & cuttings
……..in every nook & crannie
……..plant plums in memory of bloomfield’s grannie
fruit trees blossom sequentially in spring
….something for every bee & fruitfly
……..to sing and bring
……..bring and sing….spring summer & fall
if bees and bats can dance their echolocations
….so can we
……..chant the plants
……..sing to the ants….that open peonies & carry caper seeds into walls
pray and play for moldy fig resurrections
….our one brown fig has had so many iterations
……..every olde tune yields new words
……..generation after generation after generation
each of us can become a spiritual ancestor after a while
….precious to those who refuse to own land or celebrate blood
……..join the pile
……..(vote a la keil)
a poem per day
keeps the Dr. away
put a quotron at the end
…………hit “send”
living in ‘death-wish’ processes and in powerlessness
the two primary addictions
all others secondary
love & joy in service
quik or slow cure
yes i’m sure
stop worry
no hurry
be well
….
***David M. Schneider was my advisor and main supporter at U of Chi Antrho Dept, and a deeper thinker than Clifford Geertz, for my money anyway.