WORDS STRUNG TOGETHER
A poem-a-day keeps the cobwebs away
Try to remove the ‘corn’ from this production
Slice it in two and bring the two parts together:
a poem of cobwebs keeps the day away
and in a-way a cobweb of poems keeps the day
You have been granted leave to
move on now
As we take our collaged slices
to a new level
cutting it at every letter and
(perhaps)
ransom-noting a message to
hide below the rock
It is now rock-based and steady as a rock
the letters lie in wait/weight to re-form
in a new formation
like fighter planes
arrayed across either side of the runway
Letters that say nothing until word-formed
and sentence-induced to rise into the ether
Hidden words contained in the letters
Volatile mixtures of joined-up-writing
blossoming like flowers into expressive
sights and sounds
This is the life of language up close and accessible
or far removed, distant and inaccessible to the ‘common man’
What will you have? Words for words sake?
Articulating themselves to form no meaning
or do you choose ‘simple’ – simple as:
Simple Simon who met a pie man going to the fair?
Enough now of lowbrow or high
We started with corn and finish with bread:
For example – maybe?
Go see-hear what Shakespeare said?
