Wednesday 8 May 2013
Portrait 2
draws up
her mouthful
of long hair
Hunched, she
She leans out to
You're there with stewed meat on blue spoon.
DINNER, she says.
a thumbed table
a bitten hand
a chewed film
crashed wants said loud
throat graze
black long
long hair
smile razors moderated world
key scratches
eyes kick in doors
black hair and eyes
from where
white zig zag lines
shoot out from where
her chair presences
subject ball
between us goes
to and fro
She says, BALL.
cackle splits and cracks
a sideways
Fits
The names she's given
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I think 'Dinner, she says' is a key point to this portrait. I'm trying to read it without this line and I see a different person.
ReplyDeleteCan it be that labeling this sympathetic portrait under "learning disabilities" increases the already staggering distance between reader and... what would the word be... "subject"?
ReplyDeleteI get that the categorization is a (?necessary?) function of the "platform" technology. These are of course one-size-fits-all "normalizing" functions. But that's the rub. What the pigeonholing gives away can't be easily recovered.
Point taken, Tom. The label's gone. The work head had got the better of the human one.
ReplyDeleteMarie,
ReplyDeleteFor myself, I'm still trying to get some sense of who the woman in question is. I've not known her long and sometimes thing get fraught between us. When she says those plain statements, they do press home.
Despite that prior use of the label, she's still in there, a particular person.
I'll be putting the series on hold for now.
you understand that and you make us comprehend...
ReplyDeleteWB, what I forgot to say and should have said is that this is a great series. Looking forward to more of it!
ReplyDeleteThank you, both, very much.
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