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1923, 5*, being, doing, energy, Have, identity, meaning, non-doing, speech, talking to myself, William Carlos Williams, words
VI
No that is not it
nothing that I have done
nothing
I have done
is made up of
nothing
and the dipthong
ae
together with
the first person
singular
indicative
of the auxiliary
verb
to have
everything
I have done
is the same
if to do
is capable
of an
infinity of
combinations
involving the
moral
physical
and religious
codes
for everything
and nothing
are synonymous
when
energy in vacuo
has the power
of confusion
which only to
have done nothing
can make
perfect
from Spring and All, 1923
I’d have loved to have sculpted this into a circular poem so that the beginning line slipped off the end line at the apex of a circle and could be read round and around in circles until nothing was achieved; but it’s not my place to
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being & Have & speech wormhole: early // Minoan & Mycenaean Exhibitions in the British Museum – diptych
doing & talking to myself wormhole: ‘… and yet I think I am so modest: …’
identity wormhole: glamour of saṃsāra
meaning wormhole: being / doing
William Carlos Williams wormhole: SPRING AND ALL I BY William Carlos Williams
words wormhole: so / do I keep on writing now I’ve retired, or … / Rumplestiltskin
Johnny Crabcakes said:
“which only to
have done nothing
can make
perfect”
which perfect it is,
having done nothing
and
not having done any
thing…
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m lewis redford said:
… both done and did … dud(?)
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