“Autonomous”
Autonomous: Uh-taw-no-mus.
Autonomous, there is no us! Only me!
Autonomous: Well, really, it depends what you’re going for, you see.
Autonomous, I’ve got it better. Without "us" I’m single, free.
Autonomous: Come on. You’ve got to be kidding, Autonomy. We’re one and the same. Don't you agree? Form is merely a formality.
*Notes on Adjective Exercise
This was inspired, loosely, by Darwish. Though infrequently, he used textuality in a way that reminded me of e.e. cummings. In cummings’ “la”, the spatial allocation of the words is important and the written poem is more complex than its spoken counterpart. For my poem, the scripted dialogue enabled me to begin each line with the adjective, as either speaker, or addressee.
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