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Poem: A Song for Dead Systems
Like so many people, I’m frustrated with the futility of right now. Everything feels needlessly off.
I made three versions of this piece, but I assure you there are many many more versions of the headspace I was in when I created them.
I’ve always been fascinated with processes over the outputs they support.
A lot of the criticism I received in school was that my poems don’t say anything.
That they’re all discourse and no results.
Maybe, “discourse” is the “result” I’m going for.
Maybe, we live in a world only made up of processes and substance feels obsolete.
The first version of the poem above, is an homage to French poet Jean-Francois Bory and his so-called Concrete Poets.
The text alone, as it appears in the version below, was influenced by American poet, CAConrad.
Information, in my opinion, is a natural resource.
It flows like liquid or air.
