Exchange Value #2; 24 September 2010
[...] You see me there [...]
[...] It’s that abstract [...]
+ Rachel Zolf, ‘Poem 35 – Learning machines’
I say [...] and we assess our difference:
stiffen with divisions and the prompt
to concede the stereotype: now we are ticks
and ticks of boxes: now not: we are awkward
humor turned currency: ransom: or code
for the labels we shy: in this classroom
owning each projection troubles it.
It(‘)s ease. It(‘)s lack of exchange.
the second-to-last line is fascinating, in terms of the collaboration (in addition to being a fine line in itself). "trouble" here defines (or massages) itself: to affect a trajectory. this, of course, is what these poems are doing to each other (and this is what the poems do to each other's course(s))—owning, but also giving, each projection. and radiating pleasure.
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