Semiotics
or semiology, is the study of signs, symbols, and signification. It is the study of how meaning is created, not what it is…(1)
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and so it begins:
the sign
from a word?
buys me a ticket in
rickety steerage,
a written permission slip
to be creatively permissive
with all due disrespectful
recklessness,
being semi-idiotick,
ah,
(pause for effect)
a semitic semiotic
with nothing special on my
oy!
1:58am brain,
then to roll
that deliciously
interesting phonic
word

over my tongue
which is tickled & pickled
pink,
enjoying its signal
wicking pronunciation,

while making you
a participant
in its deep
contemplation

what rhymes with semiotic
is sign enough (2)
of its potent
but damaging, impossibly
infinite
potent impotence
to being controlled within a
rubbery ******-
imum,
a signs pro-fun-ditty

I give you my
double *******,
a probiotic antibiotic
s i g n
that I appreciate the gestures
powerful but limited impact
on your personal feelings,
distance being a safety factor,
better than a gun,
much more fun,
it completes our relationship
without blowing bloodshed messily

so much contained
in this contagion of
the signage communicative
that, the mere thoughtage
of this explorative
makes me tired,
yawn and gone,
return to my head in bed,
where the ridiculous poems
circulating on, in, my
riverhead
thankfully
never seethe the
light of day,
a sign to you,
to come join me
there,
the birthplace of
mine signage,
of yet more
provocations brainiac
causing
a modicum of
minimal breakage
@
2:13am
2024
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