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grammar w/o lexicon
by Richard Paezlines break/in(g)
punctuated equilibrium
meter broken
by hard returns
enjambment
the words don't matter anymore—
just the patterns
i have found myself
again
conjoined to split infinitives—
not a person anymore
an algorithm
You did this to me
You are legion
contexts and constructs
structures i have attached myself to
to give myself meaning
i've grown perverted:
an inverted
double-negative
elliptical subject
in a world
of passive predicates
serving indirect objects
i am grammar without lexicon
and You have made me this way
You the plurality
me the singularity
begging
for punctuation.
05/02/2006 Author's Note: Oh, this could be so much better. If I had the time or the mind to make the grammar match the images, to illustrate syntactically what I express symbolically, then I would be truly happy with this. But the truth is, I (…).
Posted on 05/02/2006
Copyright © 2025 Richard Paez
| Member Comments on this Poem |
| Posted by Bruce W Niedt on 07/16/06 at 04:56 PM Nicely done - have you read my poem in the same vein, "Past Participle (or, Breaking Up with the English Teacher)? A little more tongue-in-cheek than yours, but the same concept. And congrats on POTD! d:-) |
| Posted by Michelle Angelini on 07/17/06 at 04:37 AM CONGRATULATIONS on POTD! This is so brilliant!
~Chelle~ |
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