Bryant Mason
from Memoranda to All Department Heads,
Week One, Friday
Memorandum
To: All Department Heads
From: Angel of Dust
cc: Jean Baudrillaird, consultant
Date: Week One, Friday
Subject: Character Building Exercises
Finally intentions extend to the way dominance
reads and evidence comprehends
such that continuing power resides in their coherence
but the collaboration is an activity of focus
culminating in the opening engagement
the marquee reads "a small coterie of amateurs, one night only"
a fine spill of words to misconceive clearly
even when forecasts are favorable
the changes do not spring like a planet
revolving around an absent pupil
Informal stabs at what it is that we understand
are easy enough to come by even in principle
don't make a scene, carry out,
set and space out self-consciously
in a considered retreat from the present
for something is wrong with the disciplines
of vigorous intercources to seek out
and render problematic the axia of its own procedures
There is no Frigidaire like a book
to manipulate, decipher, and deploy
maneuver, escalate, bait and tackle
allegory as measured by accounting
for seesaw rides astride blindness and hindsight
What are the rewards in a spectacularized market
keen to shift disinterestedness to display?
such school yard games we play to be taken seriously
whether mistakenly in error or just wrong
stake out a claim to evict the territory
of the fault and expose the myths as totally altered
hems within a rather narrow and skeptical slip beyond itself
to exert their influence over the anxiety of reflection on the details
otherwise known as the Traditional Position
Yet pointing to a loss either here or in the same old transactions
and into somebody's pockets for sure is naught to worry over
the unstable ground doesn't move today
as meanings make readers even if they are too busy to take notes
or to have the stub validated by the merchant's
self-legitimating system of de facto practices
Still neither reading nor writing resembles
the elimination of dysfunction in the plumbing
or the self-regulating temper controls already in place
as part and parcel of the built-in modern conveniences
so often extolled in tales of domination and resistance,
suppression and promotion, ordering and delivery
The question then is whether we have a capacity
to discover our own insular agency in the illusions
and realities of what we do not care to know
Copyright © 1996 Bryant Mason
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