The Primer

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She said, I love you.

He said, Nothing.


(As if there were just one
of each word and the one
who used it, used it up).


In the history of language
the first obscenity was silence.

-- Christina Davis

Comments

[hellsbebop.livejournal.com]

ooh...

[pattanesca.livejournal.com]

♥

[doublehelix.livejournal.com]

brilliant

[flightviolation.livejournal.com]

damn. i like it.

[gl-oriana.livejournal.com]

Ouch!

[charientism.livejournal.com]

that is gorgeous.

[mehinda.livejournal.com]

I don't care much for the poem but the parenthetical stanza is interesting.

[sliverofsanity.livejournal.com]

I like this. The last stanza seems almost completely unrelated, like a random fact, when put up against the scenario. But then you realize what it means, and the whole poem shows how much it hurts.

[known-stranger9.livejournal.com]

"In the history of language
the first obscenity was silence."
.... Amazing!!
Loved it...!!
SILENCE... something about it, fills in the spaces where language cannot reach, and creates blanks at places stuffed w/ words (language)!

Obscene -- yet brilliantly complicated!!!
What say?!?!!?

[latelyontime.livejournal.com]

wow! that poem is the equivalent of a low voltage electric shock. Awesome.

[borrowed-hearts.livejournal.com]

I love this. And I love your icon. What is it from?

[highlighted.livejournal.com]

Hi there. My icon's a picture of Björn Andrésen, who played Tadzio in the film version of Thomas Mann's Death in Venice. :)