Pride and Prejudice


Concerning the meaning of meaning 

Reach out beyond the particular word
Into the Universal void of objects
Where there are a million words for the same thing
And yet same sounds mean different things.

Pull back the tide of self righteousness,
You fugitives from Eden,
Self made denizens of stolen lands,
Plucking everything worse than birds,

By which philosophy are you confused,
I ask as a clandestine of modernity,
Such that you build things not to last
And pay money to buy yourself an image.

Think again about significance itself.
It is a word like many others but it turns
Some words burn while others play
At Pride and Prejudice while the senses sleep.

Bevagna, 2 9 2013