The shiny surface
is licked by a raspy cat tongue
he carries around,
cat and all,
as if in the other pocket
from the rabbit’s foot, scraped white

fur, or is it German, for
the purpose of having
the thing mentioned
as a function of being
as much as saying nothing
with as many words:

“whatever the passions,
the birds sing on”
as clockwork, an early
glimmered soloist sounds
through the smallness of a rooftop
opening: weeny window into the world

If yet a slurped pebble,
a flicked calculus heard afar
of a tiny courages stone
and language games
fixed in the changes
of a tight tied-on shoe: cats do lick

of rules and regulations
for all language is heteroglossic
and games are not executed
in a sand-strewn place for combat
as bloodshed alone is but a word
when the swording thumb points down

stolen if its etymology
is written instead? unheard
or is it novel
and continuing to develop
meaning neither here nor there
not yours nor mine as fake affordances

he uses it as such
he has meaning
drinking from his hand
gulping, without pause
from his hand alone
diverse tongues and all

                   —animasuri’24

Some Triggers

Bakhtin, M. M., Emerson, C., Holquist, M. (Trans.). (1981, 2011). The Dialogic Imagination. Four Essays. Slavic Series No. 1. Austin, Texas, USA: University of Texas Press. Or, heterogeneously: https://archive.org/search?query=Bakhtin

Oliver, M. (2005). The Problem with Affordance. E-Learning and Digital Media, 2(4), 402–413. https://doi.org/10.2304/elea.2005.2.4.402

Whewell, T., Fell, A., Churchill, N., Ashman, G., Murphy, P. (2024, July 30, 9:32-10:00). A Slogan and a Land: Part One. IN: Assignment. Podcast, Online: BBC World Service. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/p002vsn0?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile

Wilson, B. (2022). Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations. Edinburgh University Press. Or, alternatively voiced: https://archive.org/details/routledgeguidebo0000mcgi