Monday, November 5, 2012

Transmeaning


768 miles per hour
the speed of a conversation
a drop in pitch we’re all made
of words maybe we’re all made
of poetry and a few subatomic
particles some spontaneous overflow
of Unwritten poetry and ego tripping at
the gates of tongue moments between sound,
gaps between sound waves interlude between
translated memory ruptured interpretation missing
footstep of word tattooed onto a page Written but meant
to mean another thing like being etched in stone hindered
expression of language confused space masked by literal translation
and off beat communication in that case C’est la vie mean not that’s life
but it is the life the indefinite article asphyxiated by established catchphrase
familiarity voids of thought rendered a Transcontinental splintering of fractured
message empty spaces between transcription transliteration Transcribed denotation Cracks in the pavement 768 ways to imply the death of imported semantics