Show Me the City Before the City

 
Obliqueness is a fashion
    that might be liberally applied
where form seems to be missing 

a ligature, a panel. There's much   
     of that kind of style in the way 
you hear people talk in certain places— 

If you can avoid it, you try not to have 
     to say anything. Someone opens 
the door to conversation with a lilt 

at the end of a sentence. You 
     are to understand earnestness 
needs to be tempered with a little story 

involving animals or wrong turns or mistaken 
     identities. If you read someone's 
intentions differently, perhaps it's because 

they're hiding behind a scaffold draped 
     with scenery. You know it's hard to look 
at a burning light without blinking.
     

 

In response to Via Negativa: Unmapping.