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Aug 2017
of course: i'm always scheming against educational orthodoxy, but i'm not heidegger, claiming the heights of the university tier; me? i begin with the basics, as any greek atomist might.

again this is not for brownie points:
i really do prefer *sonny clark

to chopin -
     in that i also despise artists being
hijacked for no worth of their work,
but simply for their ethnicity -
i just like the jazz impromptu -
  the spontaneity - the *******
       fury of: playing with the devil's hands.

writing music will remain my foremost
fascination, and i'll die with the awe
rather than the regret, of not being
able to write sounds down -
   i settled in the comfort of encoding
the "lesser" sounds -
         assured, by the elevation of encoding
through the diacritical system,
   moving from language per se,
toward accents.

i knew a few people who were dyslexic -
and if i were an english teacher
i'd say the same thing, over & over again -
i'll come to that later -
how did i begin my journey into
the shadow of the valley of speaking english?
a sing-along of the alphabet,
   which, for me, always ended with
a muddle: V W X Y Z,
  that's what became muddled, every,
single, time.

point being? i really don't care for reciting
an alphabet, i think it's a stupid idea to begin
with, to make it so ****** rigid...
why would you even begin to learn
something so rigid, so ******* pedantic
to begin with? what's wrong with you?
are words arranged in the same pompous format?
no... they're random!

   letters are not numbers, gematria taught me
that...
        i really don't care if you begin with
a, b, c, and end with the mathematics of x, y, z...
beside the point...
  what i want is to obliterate dyslexia,
shake something till it responds
  with a smile (like that kid
   in the offspring's video for the song
original prankster) -

i really don't need some nunnery of a memory's
worth of use...
throw out
the ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ...
and for god's sake:
just give me the 26 letters,
    keeping it fresh, because you'll
never allow yourself to stay rigid
     to some "historical" event of acceptable
chronology...
******* 'n' all.. with alphabetical
chronology...
             or so quantum physics suggests;
once more:
  just give me the 26, in whatever order
you like - after all, you won't be arranging
words with that orthodox chronology
ever being, helpful.
Mateuš Conrad
Written by
Mateuš Conrad  36/M/Essex (England)
(36/M/Essex (England))   
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