The Misfit
~A.R. Ammons
The unassimilable fact leads us on:
round the edges
................where broken shapes make poor masonry
the synthesis
fails (and succeeds) into limitation
................or extending itself too far
becomes a different synthesis:
law applies
.................consistently to the molecule,
not to the ocean, unoriented, unprocessed,
it floats in, that floats in it:
.................we are led on
to the boundaries
where relations loosen into chaos
...............or where the nucleus fails to control,
fragments in odd shapes
expressing more and more the interstitial sea:
...............we are led on
to peripheries, to the raw blocks of material,
where mortar and trowel can convert
..............diversity into enlarging unity:
not the million oriented facts
but the one or two facts,
..............out of place,
recalcitrant, the one observed fact
that tears us into questioning:
...............what has not
joined dies into order to redeem, with
loss of singleness extends the form,
................or, unassimilable, leads us on.
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still looking.....prob'bly in a bunch of boxes of computer stuff in the basement.....use to play them while I traded so many times they got mixed with the programs, and I moved and I didn't really know how much old computer crap and programs I didn't want to throw away, so I put in boxes and
maybe, just maybe it will be there, usually the people that borrow my music are very good in returning.......
talking about old programs I still use Ecco Pro as my PIM--- and on Yahoo Groups there are a thousand or so people who still keep it alive.....and its free now.....the company that made it lets you download the thing for nothing--- something about litigation with someone--- anyways just in case you remember it -- it is still there.........
we are led on........... |
