An Unassailable Vantage-Point
Collage Poem - Saturday - November 19, 2011
I am sorry, but I don't know anything.
You have to immerse yourself in direct experience.
Between the art of convincing and the art of persuading,
the latter belonging to the logic of the trial.
Is there nothing left to lose on the way to art heaven?
Individual identity responds with visceral, murderous horror,
absolute disgust, metaphysical fury, to everything
from some essential inadequacy of ordinary language
The limits are frontiers to be attacked with all one’s strength,
to establish an unassailable vantage-point.
Do not hesitate to push forward, ‘leap-frog’ and ‘take the escalator’.
When the sense of the limits is lost,
manage to impose a new definition,
supplant the virtues normally associated with adulthood.
Only in and through the struggle
do the internalized limits become boundaries,
and indeed, barriers that have to be moved.
To move beyond the opposition between
objectivist theories and subjectivist theories
defined as much by its being-perceived as by its being
in order to be the object of mental representations.
As such, a sense of indivisible continuity.