WAITING IN VAIN

23 Saturday Jun 2018

Posted by drdamiang in Alien, film, Language, Lateral thinking, Poem, Poet, poetry, Poetry, Poetry, Uncategorized

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WAITING IN VAIN
(FOR THOSE
SAPIR-WHORF
ALIENS)

not to be pedantic
but Big Bang no longer
poses itself
under
mark of
the
question
(perhaps
in later times
in may well
return
ask
another one)

but something’s in the air
there’s a breeze Chaos
bounded
bracket everything you
have read, everything
your parents
told you
old stories, new
stories they’re
all
boomeranging back

so it doesn’t matter how
you letter, go for
a voice-raise
with pointy exclamation!

It’s back to the belly
of the beast, labyrinth
where was this thing
first growled
that has grown
into language

thing tough on the lips, teeth
and jaw yet
so fragile of concept
(should Sapir-Whorf aliens threaten
to magically materialize,
suddenly upend

renumber with
abandon, punctuate everything backwards
let conclusion
prove premise
as
play
total havoc
with tense).