Do.Make.Say.Think.

by N Filbert

Do. Make. Say. Think.

 

“Where would I go, if I could go, who would I be, if I could be,

what would I say, if I had a voice?”

-Samuel Beckett-

It might be commonly assumed

or acceptable

that the same and the other,

the other the same,

identify “identity”

having to do with movement and rest,

absence and the nothing between.

In other words,

going and being,

and the voice that speaks them,

and once the saying then the I

and once an I there must be other.

 

Spinning there

we might say

that there is no movement discernible

without rest

no resting, still;

saying behavior

implies in-between

riding the breath of nothing

 

why the scientist might say

not the stars nor the eye

but light bouncing to and fro;

or that “readiness is all”

(the philosopher poet)

envisioning virtue

or ontology,

finding invisible grounds

for belief.

Like religion or medicine,

science or language,

some signage of the distance void.

 

Interaction rendering solipsism

cellularly, by the instant,

if there be passing or change –

and there is –

or you are unable this letter to read

 

or that –

the same, the other

another naming

of indissoluble problems

that there is

and there isn’t

(the perhaps and the might-not-be)

movements one to the other

the rest residing between

 

a different way of saying

N Filbert 2012