slapanism
the artist
cynical and sincere
humour and size 44 shoes(UK)
shooting holes in:
your beliefs:
what you've been 'told' and what you
accept
categorical containment in attempts to
understand that which is not difficult
because the question why is fully
loaded and forgotten
leaving it behind, taking what you want
from it, imperialist of ideas,
who is not guilty:
who could be innocent?
who would want to be innocent?
to serious to be practical, we decided.
we sat on the beachcounting waves.
making truth out of your cultural imperialism,
your colonizing even of your friends, you're
me.
slapanismists demand the following:
the question why demands an answer, never
leave it behind.
end of categorical containment. to be
sure, we use these isms in order to communicate
at all, which is the same reason we use language,
have languages.
pause. why demand the impossible.
the art
it is beautiful.
the beret
we only wear hats when it is cold, because our mothers instructed us
to do so.
what is not a structure, therefore subject to deconstruction?
Submitted by kevin (duneman@weeg.uiowa.edu), on Friday, October 3, 1997, from iowa city