III. Identities, Realities, Values
Language stands on the hood of a Mercury Cougar and curses you. Language enthrones your uncle’s motorcycle. Language incorporates your moods. Witnesses describe language digging in your backyard at 3 a.m. Language angles its hips over the edge of a pool table. Even with patient training, language will never learn to fetch. Language competes for your last penny. You notice language the way you might stare at a murmuration. Language husbands a flat field with leather ribbons. Language denies your work permit. Declare “forever” in every paneled family room.
IV. Linguistic Value
You applaud a swarm. You clap at language, its worship of hurt. You name the steer “manners.” Language calls separation “temporary escape.” Language mimics the dividend of alignment and its dictatorship. To reaffirm you with fireworks, language begins with examples: sweat – the cohesion of sweat. Your fantasy: language, clothed in camouflage, stares at you through a scope and pulls a bowstring. Once again, you and language refuse to celebrate your anniversary. Language seems incapable of cleaning the tub drain. Your language will not obey. Argue the argument. Does your emergent behavior avoid or seek language? Language dares you to comprehend its movement: a scale-free correlation waving above the interstate.
