the actor says there is no comma
the playwright states “it’s implied!”
the actor says “no it’s not”
the playwright rejoinders
“then put the **** comma in!”
the poet witnessed this in living color,
tonight,
at the Guggenheim Museum (NYC)
~
this interaction
left me hard a thinking
where is the obligation?
must I walk the reader down the path
provide a handrail for him to semi-self-guide
with white painted pebbles two sided astride a path stating
pause here for a ,
this-away this-away
or
am I to be mere assumed to be subsumed
fully into their consciousness and ethereally understood
accepting the cadence desired as an
under stood
by we two
two parties,
we united states,
we, the investor and the invested
alack
these is no director to give guidance;
the reader must
intuit
what is the it
the it
the writer desires, they/we/us/them
must be as one
the comma is needed not
implied means though invisible
the writer is invisible
but the needed pause,
is not
he simply stays, think how to speak it,
find the way that pleases your ears,
manipulate mollify modulate
your breathing
intrigue your mind, find the ways to
betterment share with another
find the cadence
to make the meaning to/of
you-the-reader, you-the-envisioner
the con+joined listener
a sacred sacrifice of joining, a combining,
a conjoining….of understanding <nml>
9:57pm Mon Feb 9 ‘26
Feb 9
Feb 9, 2026 at 9:55 PM UTC
the actor says there is no comma
the playwright states “it’s implied!”
the actor says “no it’s not”
the playwright rejoinders
“then put the **** comma in!”
the poet witnessed this in living color,
tonight,
at the Guggenheim Museum (NYC)
~
this interaction
left me hard a thinking
where is the obligation?
must I walk the reader down the path
provide a handrail for him to semi-self-guide
with white painted pebbles two sided astride a path stating
pause here for a ,
this-away this-away
or
am I to be mere assumed to be subsumed
fully into their consciousness and ethereally understood
accepting the cadence desired as an
under stood
by we two
two parties,
we united states,
we, the investor and the invested
alack
these is no director to give guidance;
the reader must
intuit
what is the it
the it
the writer desires, they/we/us/them
must be as one
the comma is needed not
implied means though invisible
the writer is invisible
but the needed pause,
is not
he simply stays, think how to speak it,
find the way that pleases your ears,
manipulate mollify modulate
your breathing
intrigue your mind, find the ways to
betterment share with another
find the cadence
to make the meaning to/of
you-the-reader, you-the-envisioner
the con+joined listener
a sacred sacrifice of joining, a combining,
a conjoining….of understanding <nml>
9:57pm Mon Feb 9 ‘26
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