Holy Terror

Tongues Wagging
Tons of Angles
Clanging Brass
A Good Thing.
 
   A colleague years ago declared me Terrorist.
 
I wish.
 
   That would be awesome.
 
It’s possible, though time is running out.
 
   “Yes, but not moments," another colleague
     advised: “You got infinite  moments left.”
 
                       ***
 
What [terrorists] quite regularly do is create lively
talk where there has been silence, or where speech
has been prohibited.
 
[Terrorist ] speaks freshly where language has been
blocked, gone dead, or lost it’s charm. Here again
Plato’s intuition—that deceit and inventive speech
are linked—holds, for usually language goes dead
because cultural practice has hedged it in, and some
shameless double-dealer is needed to get outside the
rules and set tongues wagging again. (Lewis Hyde)
 
Gary & The Composers know this.
And the Writing Center, too.
How to Sound Good.
Regardless of topic.
Content’s galore)
 
Raising the dead. Holy Terrors..
 
It’s the heart of their Creative Righting Program
    Creative Fiction and Creative NonFiction.
      Local Food and Feedback going on.
 
Do you listen to the language?
The sound of music and not just what it’s about?
That’s what Count counts.
 
                   ***

Typically, webs of signification are built around
sets of opposites: fat and thin, slave and free, for
example, or—more categorically—true and false,
natural and unnatural, real and illusory, clean and
dirty.
 
What tricksters do is disturb these pairs and thus
disturb the web itself.—he leaves what Theodore
Roethke called “the weary dance of opposites”
and finds a THIRD THNG.  (Hyde)
 
Finding the THIRD THING
Always In the weary dance
but not OF it, know what
I mean?
 
That would be Liberal Art.
 
(This don’t sound as good as I’d like it.
Terrorist Wannabe but can’t afford
the bad it takes to get good.) .