Nobody loves the Non-Linear

Disciplinary Knowing

           What seems the

               succession

          of thought is only the

            distribution of the

            whole into causal

                 sequence.

Emerson: commenting on the difference if not

relationship between  thinking on the one hand

(so to speak) and  its manifest expression as

linear sequence and succession one after the

other, time after time like these words on a

screen: sequential, but the thought is whole: an

all-at-once-ness parsed into beginning-middle-end,

simultaneity  translated into cause & effect, eternity

chrono logical-ized: the song over but the melody

lingering on how could it be otherwise?

Digitalized! damnit—a violence to the whole.

I am a miser: holding on to what I got: this &

that & that. No way can I let go my because &

affect, reasons-why, explanatory interpretations

& blame-ations, escape goating terms of desire

one after another in time and space.

Spirit on the one hand. reduced to letters on

the other hand: words,  sentences I can sulk

over, sanctify,quibble and  correct.

Here’s how. Here’s why. Here’s when.

Me measuring all things & no things,

so as to see & say hap happening happily

one thing  after another  reducing the whole into

causal sequence for the sake of convenience if

not always convention.