And what is love? And what if we got love all wrong? What would have been wrong about the getting. To think of it as an achievement. A puzzle. Or something that solves something else. There’s some error. What’s to puzzle? A thing that’s always around and mostly ignored. That’s a puzzle. How is it …
What is the action of writing? The spilling of ink onto a page. A thought going from mind to letters. An activity of exhausting the mind of its contents. Something going from one place and into what seems like a world of permanence — but is not. A thought goes from brain-body to pencil-paper. From …
And of course, you’re saying things back to yourself. What’s here is here. So you’re going to spread the word?What is that word, exactly?Love? But whoever gave a thought to what love is?Love is the wordless word. Even more so than God.God comes loaded with certainty and agreement.Love comes fraught with confusion and disagreement and …
And what are you afraid of?No self. Yes.Starting with no “success” or authoritative approval for the character so assiduously crafted. No relevance. As in, once Shakespeare is dead, Shakespeare is no longer relevant to Shakespeare. Worse yet, very few care about a Shakespeare centuries later. Ultimately it’s the fear of the end of whatever this …
What is silence?What is without a word?Crows with no word, flying to an ocean with no word. The way a flag gets pushed by a negligible wind has no word. And do the crows think they have a word when they caw?Does a man think that a crow might think it has a word with …
