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I don't know if names exist before things or things exist before names. I don't know if you are your name or your name is you. I only know that I hunt for words I can scream out loud, I can pronounce tasting the salt and the sweet inside a noun that reminds me of you, I can drink as it was the water in your iris, I can swallow like waves of red wine getting me drunk the way you do. I hunt for words where I can see you, I can find you, I can feel you, even in other languages because one is not enough.
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Sep 25, 2018
Sep 25, 2018 at 10:25 AM UTC
Hunting for you
I don't know if names exist before things or things exist before names. I don't know if you are your name or your name is you. I only know that I hunt for words I can scream out loud, I can pronounce tasting the salt and the sweet inside a noun that reminds me of you, I can drink as it was the water in your iris, I can swallow like waves of red wine getting me drunk the way you do. I hunt for words where I can see you, I can find you, I can feel you, even in other languages because one is not enough.
Once there was a time I was obsessed with the "grammatical platonism" of Jean Jolivet. I'm still fascinated by this conundrum of the names and I love to think that Poetry gives me access to a sort of Hyperuranium.
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Sep 25, 2018
Sep 25, 2018 at 10:25 AM UTC
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