A LITTLE ANTHOLOGY
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Fullmany an arse that smiled with mine-O,
yes:
'Static-static-static':
but all the while everywhere
Corningdown the river and over the trees and up the steps and under
Theevertinggrass, the no-sound of everything breaking in air.
WINFIELD TOWNLEY SCOTT
The Word Is Deed
for Kenneth Burke
Before ever any Deed came
the sound of the last Deed coming
came with the coming Word
(which answers everything with dancing)
So
John
begins like
Genesis:
1m Anfang war das Wort;
But Engels read there:
war die Tat.
In the Beginning was the Word:
'Plant, tend, harvest our own food.'
This distinguished Men from Brutes.
(Men who dance know what was done.)
Good and Evil took roots
in this cause of Destinies
whence every Revolution stirred.
Ways of work determinate
moulds for men's intelligence.
Discoveries follow thence
obscured by fallibilities'
compensating philosophies
doubted soon as heard.
(Who dance not know not what is done.)
