My Way_ Speeches and Poems - Charles Bernstein

THE REPUBLIC OF REALITY 315
to be proud
to have blinders
to pull a load
to collapse
to hold hope
to linger
to long
to seem to fail
to be forgotten
to travel suddenly
to invent
to inveigle
to disappoint
to cast adrift
to stare
to be shunned
to gather dust
to tremble
to hold tight
to stray
to fill up cups
to shudder
to tense
to undergo humiliation
to skip
to stall
to make up motives
to tiptoe lightly
This line is stripped of emotion.
This line is no more than an
illustration of a European
theory. This line is bereft
of a subject. This line
has no reference apart
from its context in
this line. This line
is only about itself.
This line has no meaning:
its words are imaginary, its
sounds inaudible. This line