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Free verse № 243

Civilization

by ifni

Member since 2001 · Posted 16 Mar 2002 · 2 comments

There is a nowhere place half-way inbetween us built by words and the assumptions that give birth to them. Our mask-selves dance there, bow, then turn smile, and turn again; negotiating the little slips, the minor stumbles that twitch aside our true-self veils glimpsing each other in our proxies' mistakes. When did we learn our civilization exists only in our ability to lie? 10.6.01 JV

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[5] nentwined 12-May-02/8:27 PM Reply
I've heard a theory that consciousness arises out of the ability to lie. :)
[n/a] poetandknowit 15-Aug-02/8:44 AM Reply
Who is "us"? So, is the nowhere place civilization or just the place "us" goes to become someone else? Hey, like the Internet. Is that the nowhere place for the nowhere man living in the nowhere land?