02-09-2012, 12:41 PM
< contemporaneousity >
i hand my sister a poem
she's impressed with its life-affirming qualities
(i thought it was about suicide)
i can't imagine
(literally)
what someone in the late 1500's thought of a Shakespeare poem
someone with a different vocabulary.
someone who had their Greeks and Romans straight
when i find a poet who
"really speaks to me"
is that because they push the ten buttons i have available?
when i learn more
will i have a hundred?
will the old ten still be there?
skip just a few hundred years into the future
and someone is watching Allen Ginsberg read poetry in their head
using their neural brain implant (Sony) they got at birth
and that connects them to anything everywhere
Allen says: "television"
television?
oh course they have access to scads of definitions
(even the picture of a 1957 Dumont tv set)
but...
a system that only sent pictures one way?
a heavy external device that usually sat on a table?
and what the hell is "black and white"?
they will (of course)
be intimately familiar with the Oscar Mayer Wiener-mobile
some things
are indeed
timeless
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