we find pictures
pictures in words
we find words in people, people
who find themselves in situations,
situations beyond their control

we find images
images beyond the situation, and move
to new levels of communication
new levels of interaction
communicating through
words, rather than with words
levels where words transgress
beyond history
beyond seas
beyond technology

we find pictures
pictures in words
and sketch what we see
by the page
by the hour
by the pen
that guides our sanity
beyond the white walls
beyond the rubber rooms
beyond the clinical state of the mind
and we will write

we will write when
there are no lines
or no paper
or ink runs dry
we will write,
scribble,
draft,
and print ourselves into existance
and paint life onto the page
in hues of flesh and bone

delicate traces of ink
will decorate the skin, the page,
these characters will form pictures
pictures of words,
and between those words
lurks my picture,
a picture I create in the mind
formed by the picture on the page

and then, the life I paint
cannot be denied, cuz
you've seen it, felt it, known it--
a piece of it,
through the words
that decorate what you read

we are
the transcribers of lives
the interpreters of visions
the inkers of truth
and the slaves of the pen

01/05/2002

Posted on 01/05/2002
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