Divided I Stand

To Articulate:  originally a butcher's term:
to  flay the beast at the joints with the least
amount of blood and gristle.

             Divided I Stand.
(The heart of thinking: drawing distinctions) 

Cleavage cuts & binds, severs & joins & nothing

is  lost not even harrowing weather stitching in
time, tonguing the great divide so to speak:
mediator turning   trickster, articulator cleaving
a beast with 2 backs right at the  joints with
minimum blood & gristle; butcher’s boy cuts like
a knife & savors the sever & the parting & parts
it sanctions.

              Fundamentalism

A universe

comes into

being when

space is

severed or

taken a

part.

The skin

of a living

being cuts

off an outside

from an inside.

By tracing the way we represent such a severance,

we begin to reconstruct with an accuracy and

coverage almost uncanny, the basic forms

under-lying linguistic, mathematical,

physical, and biological science, and begin to

see how the familiar laws of our own experience

follow inexorably from the original act of severance.

                                        (G. Spencer Brown: Laws of Form)

I am a fundamentalist. I take things literally.

I take it all literally: as opposed to NOT.

                              C

Right there: the cut, severance: a distinction

drawn between taking IT literally within, &

NOT literally without.  I take IT literally,
the distinction.  "C."

Cleavage. Severance: a doubling yields  2for
the price of one sacrifice. Nothing to lose:  much
to gain.Cut IT in 2. See how they run, see how
they roll. They .all run after the butchers' wife...