Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Bob Dylan is Not the Bodhisattva Valentine

We don’t say ‘frick you’
or ‘I’ll frick you up’
but we do say ‘fricking’
because words are irresponsible
 
which is not a terrible thing
not to trust them past
their level of expertise
the limits of their ‘seducibility’
 
like the word ‘desire’
which could mean anything
but always includes ‘sire’
‘ire’ and ‘fire’ you don’t
 
have to spell it out
you can sit in the sun and stare
but it’s always there churning

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