and we sail and we sail

Conner—the only living human I have ever acknowledged as a better writer than I . . . though that was some time ago—and me, we were talking that pretty recent time about the arrogance of selecting words. How, every time, when we sit down to write a Libel, we alight upon a first word, inscribe it, and thereby reject millions of others. And, what the fuck, hubris, is that? Every time, in selecting a word, kicking aside, all those millions, of others? Who, are we, in that? God? Well. Yeah. Realizing, we, are all the way back, to Yahweh: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” But, you know, soon, with Yahweh, it was not at all, with the Word, working out. He was tossing people out the Garden, tearing down Babel, blasting Gomorrah, flooding the whole planet, all the many etceteras. With, the Word, Yahweh, he thought he could make, a perfect world. But, he was just a blinded motherfucker. I: know: this. Because: I: am one: too. The mooning, in the words, the Word, of wanting, to make, a more perfect world. Which, will, never, happen. But, we try, anyway. Yahweh. Conner. Me. All, we all. Boats, against the current; borne back, forward, into, the forever, past, future, eternal. Are we fools? We are fools. Up all and every ying-yang. So. Go ahead. Laugh. Just laugh. All you all. Motherfuckers. As we fail. And we fail. As all our tears. Like water. Flow. As, upon them, we sail. As we sail. And we sail. Sail, to Caledonia. Lookin’. For all. You all. A brand new. Start . . . .

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in black and white
sailing on the tears
bon voyage

thanks for posting!

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enhydra lutris's picture

be well and have a good one

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --

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Marilyn

"Make dirt, not war." eyo

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@mhagle

I am looking forward to listening to this talk.

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it looks like you upped your punctuation game even more.
You been liftin'?

And also, what do you have against semi-colons?

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janis b's picture

I don’t know Conner’s writing, but I am always fond of your writing.

Speaking of writing to revel in, I am looking forward to receiving a library copy of Cormac McCarthy’s recent novel, The Passenger.

https://www.openculture.com/2019/10/novelist-cormac-mccarthy-gives-writi...

https://www.santafe.edu/news-center/news/cormac-and-sfi-abiding-friendship

[video:https://youtu.be/D0z_nZjj4fw]

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