After thoughtlessly, as always, confiding to a brand-new acquaintance the squalid details of an unappetizing past, an outpouring of a life-story, as if in excuse for present circumstances, the biting irony of these foolish utterances comes home --
New Acquaintance: I'm going to be seeing my counselor later.
Old Fool: Oh, what kind of counselor?
NA: Oh, you know, the kind who only knows what you tell them.
OF: Well, - be selective.
NA: I know how to play that game. Ouch!
As much as he may wish to follow the old directives, the poet cannot really effect the crucial reformation of the language (cf. Grand Master Joyce's grand failure, the "Wake"); this is a power (mercifully limited) reserved to Moon Zappa.
At best the poet can merely make the implicit explicit, allowing the hidden structure of language to reveal their infinite richness.
For example -- "still held in the gentle arms of Morpheus."
allow us to be free of our roboticized roles
our tape-looped + cliched interactions w/ each other
so here I am at the Grapevines private open house, having a wonderful, no matter what conversational mud-hole I sink into,--world politics, literature, television, general hanky panky heh heh -- Dave might even pick up on a few chicks, right? but no-ooo -- Dave goes home w/ his mother (alas the limitations of the uncritical mind) take two aspirin call me in the morning, quick shower, and the late movies. oh my god -- 2001 - A Space Odyssey -- I walk into the middle of this ape -- hey I can use this bone to hit on this other bone -- el monolith -- hey -- apes fighting it out as I write the above -- and now, as I write this, Strauss Waltzes and spaceships -- and to think I could have been dancing at Duffy's -- the new nightclub in town -- my my -- Everyone I've talked to -- I don't know about you -- is just so glad that Duffy's is giving P.B. (The Single Tree) Clayton's a run for the money as the nightclub in town -- Why my mom even mentioned on the way home how crowded Duffy's parking lot was -- prompting the reiteration on my part of the already noted observations above -- meantime, I'm sitting here in bed -- apres la spritzer -- writing this and ignoring abovesaid 2001 -- and so it goes -- see you after the movies