VEXICON: Syntax

We are suggesting that words and their arrangements (syntax) are soul mines. But mining doesn't require modern technical tools. … What does help mining is an eye attuned to the dark. — James Hillman

have to be

There's no better sight to see / Than you and me / Staring at the sky / Happy right where we lie / Life would be so much better / If you and I were together.  Keep dreaming

— Anon. Entire found poem as written on pavement at the Underpassage

PROHIBIDA

NO

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I have one mouth.

It holds two words.

Yes, No,

inside all others.

Yes. No. No. Yes.

I say yes to these words, as I must,

and I also refuse them.

— Jane Hirshfield

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Without the Written

RING

STOP

BLACK LABEL SOCIETY

— Anon. Written on the pavement at the Underpassage. 

A quick search revealed BLS is an international touring band.

Lullabye-bye

HOW?

Hey I was Running out of Gas & 

Dont trust Just leaving my rig on the 

side of the Road So I am going to

get gas and can I’ll Be Back ASAP 

— Anon. Found Poem

NOTES

— Signs as Images as Signs in the Current Era (CE) invites an augmented reality (AR). Hence, the conceit VEXICON: the necessity of Vexation & Lexicon. This is not Artificial Intelligence (AI).  The difference? Syntax.  —DB

— Epigram: James Hillman, from Inquiry Into Image (1977) in Spring journal.

— Jane Hirshfield, above, in the collection Ledger (2020) from the poem Now A Darkness Is Coming; posted below.

— Wang Wei (701-761 CE), from the poem A Farmer, trans. David Hinton in The Selected Poems of Wang Wei (New Directions 2006)

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Some call it Simpleton Valley, but why

confuse things with yes it is, no it isn't?

— Wang Wei

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Now A Darkness Is Coming

Jane Hirshfield

I hold my life with two hands. I walk with two legs. 

Two ears are enough to hear Bach with.

Blinded in one eye, a person sees with the other. 

Now a great darkness is coming. 

A both-eyes darkness. 

I have one mouth.

It holds two words.

Yes, No,

inside all others.

Yes. No. No. Yes.

I say yes to these words, as I must,

and I also refuse them.

My two legs, 

shaped to go forward, 

obedient to can't-know and must-be, 

walk into the time that is coming.