Kneading Language

The transcript reflects
t-pir-c-snart, smart 
pants pulled on two
legs at a time, just
like everybody 
else. Or self,
selves, a duality
between the speaker
and the microphone,
a tiny intelligence 
whose function is 
to inhale so that its
friends might exhume
the bones of sound
and nouns. Necessity,
the brother of ability,
killed in reaction, in
action the truth will
shed itself, a deer 
living out on its
limbs and branches;
in losing its antlers,
it loses itself.