well this is mostly just playing with the noises that repeat in words. range pops up twice, then variations of ‘meant’ with different meanings.
what am i talking about though? i suppose arranging strange fragments is what i am doing in the poem. taking a load of phrases and sounds and trying to arrange them in an interesting and meaningful way.
the enjambment line is a very stupid joke. i remember the high school english class where i learned about the concept of enjambment and immediately wrote my shortest poem:
enjambment
enjanmb-
ment
by n.n. benn (aged 13 3/4)
and the ‘cement bag on the heid’ is a call back to a band i was in when i was in my early 20s, called the stupid idiots. it was based on a rhyme my collaborator, mahrooq, included in a song called ‘we run the show’. I borrow frequently from earlier works over the course of the poem. this is one of the great advantages an artist gets from being undiscovered – freedom to continually self-plagiarize.
the love epochal. n.n. benn 