Tags
FREUD, Language, poem, poetry, psychoanalysis, semiotics, Unconscious
LIKE A LANGUAGE
the unconscious is
structured like
a
languageis deus
ex machinais reductio
ad absurdumis fee fie foe
words and verbsis a
tree with
infinite roots
exploding into
rain forestOh your
shadows and demonson your breath they
suppress meslipping in and
out of your speechwrapped around participles
and gerunds like snakes matingand so
to the poemthat thing
of slurred nonsensethat leaf that fell on the back
of psychoanalysis when
in dragon’s blood
it was bathing