Any Mention:

Language

for when

Language

Fails

With words you pull up the underworld.

(C.G. Jung The Red Book, LIBER SECONDUS, pg. 352.)

any mention of coherence

and chaos comes flooding in

any mention of emergency

and the panic begins

any mention of contradiction

will be celebrated gratefully

any mention of sincerity

reeks of conceit

any mention of humility

floats like a lofty scent

upon an arrogant wind

any mention of irony

and

the joke falls flat

any mention of authenticity

is an indication

of the

limitation of imitation

any mention of love

and your lost in the clouds

any mention of hope

preludes the reign of despair

any mention of art

and you know that it's not

any mention of the movement

brings the movement to a halt

any mention of who’s to blame

and its not my fault

any mention of humor

tears of joy turn to ice

any mention of laughter

will never suffice

any mention of choice

leads to confusion

any mention of confusion

is rarely a choice

any mention of intelligence

becomes clever verbatim

any mention of poetry

beckons literalistic illusions

any mention of parody

and it’s all on you

any mention of generosity

begs of neglect

as for gratitude

please don’t mention it

any mention of practice

implies a tacit theory

any mention of theory

has practical implications

any mention of revolution

and the top spins off its centre

any mention of the centre

melts the magic in the margin

any mention of the margin

and the centre shifts its weight

any mention of using/subverting that power

and the scale explodes

any mention of freedom of thought

and the gold chains get heavy

any mention of diversity

per-fumes a mono-centric perversity

any mention of spontaneity

leads to prefabricated replication

any mention of instinctual action

and the animal retreats into hibernation

any mention of connectivity

encloses the isolation

any mention of security

and the walls come tumbling down

any mention of civilization

and the walls come tumbling down

any mention of the walls

and the walls come tumbling down

any mention of progress

and we are back where we started

any mention of coherence

and chaos comes flooding in

any mention of repetition

and

chance

comes in to

disrupt the pattern

any mention of old words

will be treated with respect

any mention of new words

will be treated with suspicion

(which might just be another form of respect)

any mention of peace

soon erupts via violent means

any mention of a singular truth

bespeaks countless lies

any mention of one god

implies many others

any mention of presence

foretells an absence unknown

any mention of an implicate order

dissolves an explicate border

any mention of the observer

and you become the observed

any mention of quantum mechanics

by anyone without a degree in physics

might not be entirely dismissable?

any mention of the big bang

and my brain explodes

any mention of reality

is born from a fantasy

any mention of evidence

will therefore be taken with salty grains

grown in fields not yet cultivated

by geniuses unborn

any mention of empiricism

may or may not

conceal the fear of solipsism

though it never overcomes it

…something else is needed

any mention of what that is

belittles its primal urgency

any mention of magic

will therefore be taken seriously

any mention of mystery

will therefore be taken seriously

any mention of grace

will therefore be taken seriously

any mention of any other

will therefore be taken seriously

any mention of being serious

may not be taken quite so seriously

any mention of freedom of speech

and my tongue gets tied

any mention of hate speech

and I wax lyrical

any mention of the in salt

is just the pepper

being satirical

any mention of control

and it all falls apart

any mention of surrender

and it all falls apart

any mention of the fall

and it all falls apart

any mention of similarity

need not deny the difference[s]

any mention of the difference[s]

I leave that one up to you

any mention of the subject

denies the object of its autonomy

any mention of the object

and the subject alludes your grasp

any mention of what happens in between

becomes poetry

any mention of formulating that

precedes its demise

any mention of correct methodology

invokes:

(among other possibilities)

a potential for transcendence

and/or

an identity crutch

any mention of regulating

this process en masse;

limits the likelihood

of the former

while

increasing the probability

of the latter

any mention of direct

localized embodied alliances

will therefore be warmly welcomed

any mention of balance

and it all topples over

any mention of equanimity

and it all topples over

any mention of embracing the extremes

and it all topples over

any mention of the optimum

measure of health

induces virulent toxicity

any mention of the door

and it slams in your face

any mention of the doer

represses a longing for grace

any mention of the DSM

and you become the next case

any mention of a good brew

and you get the worst

any mention of moderation

and you die of thirst

any mention of the third person

and you become the first

any mention of the hero

and I run for the hills

any mention of romance

and I’ll stay forever

any mention of finance

and I’ll beg to differ

any mention of statistics

and I cry like an undiagnosed infirmity

any mention of food

slows down the fast

any mention of the in-crowd

you become the out cast

any mention of the secret

and the secret's out

any mention of the blizzard

and you get snowed in

any mention of snowden

springs up before the fall

any mention of the fall

and it all falls apart

any mention of the part

gets you stuck in a whole

any mention of the whole

and it all falls a part

any mention of the first step

is the same as the last

any mention of nominalism

induces logophobia

any mention of the power of the word

and it falls flatus voci

any mention of modernism

is lost in the post

any mention of contagion

and you become the host

any mention of the hyper

the digi

or

the auto

then

less is most

any mention of post-post-modernism

arrived a little too late

any mention of the meta-modern

and I start to oscillate

any mention of trust

parades the paranoia

any mention of family

extracts the foreign

from the famil-liar

any mention of following

the bee-trail of loyalty

and the honey dries up

any mention of speech

and my speechless kerfuffle

implodes in screaming pitches

unheard by the well spoken

any mention of the meaning of the poem

denies the poem of its meaning

wordsbleedintoeachother

require

one

an' other

dissipateinfusion

but choke as I do

when captured in

high

definition

the gaps are

ir re con cil able

the imaginatrix

can not be ignored

enough words already