Friday, January 4, 2008

A Sentence For the Sake of the Words

Gertrude Stein inspired.


What is a sentence. A sentence for the sake of the words. A sentence for the sake of itself. A sentence that when taken out of context is still beautiful.
The knee will lock if it sits in one position for too long.
The shadows on the wall were enough to make church bells cry.
When I looked up I realized that the clouds weren't moving but I was. Vertigo with feet planted firmly on solid ground.
The voice that kept it noisy is gone away and I am lonely lonely without the noise. The clamor.
A hammer.
A stammer. When the letters trip over each other. When the letters trip for lack of coordination. They should practice more often. So we find that letters can stutter and make their uttering a task.
What is a sentence. A sentence is an image that is not necessarily a thought though it comes from the mind. Let us call it thought for the sake of argument. What is argument. Argument is passion. Argument is close to a paragraph though not in the physical sense. What is a paragraph. A paragraph is emotion. A paragraph is what makes a sentence more meaningful. Emotions make thought more meaningful. If an argumentative paragraph follows a sentence it shows conflict. Conflict is a striving.
Some things are more comfortable for having done them before. If you do a thing too often it means less. And forms a habit. An abbot wears a habit. You can wear a habit and have a habit and be in the habit of wearing a habit. Habits are hard to break but habits will tear. I have never worn nor torn a habit.
Waiting.
Waiting is.
Waiting is impatience.
Waiting patiently is virtue.
A virtual picture of the picture of virtue.
Seven virtues. And seven deadly sins. Can you name them. I can name many more than seven sins but virtue was never one of my habits. Virtue is as deadly as sin because death comes to all and all to death come.
On a long enough timeline the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
History repeats itself not in the form of a wheel but a pattern because time is not a loop it is a line. A time-line. A timeline. Time has a timeline. A beginning and an end with no arrows on the ends if you begin at the beginning and end at the end. Alpha and omega.
Alpha and omega. Who would win. Alpha dogs are top. Omega is the last one standing. Would it be a tie.
A tie goes round a neck. Tie it round your neck. The tie is around the neck. A tie-dyed tie tied around a neck. Too loose to be a noose it must be fashion. A regrettable fashion. All fashion is regrettable in time.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

This is inspired and inspiring! And yes, time is a line, my suffering tells me so. Keep making sentences, paragraphs, brilliant arguments.