A Profane Stencil

[RICHARD ROMEO]

This is what I would've recited at Pynch open-mike at KGB (I'll be out of 
the city that week unfortunately)

A Profane Stencil
(A Prayer For the Excluded Middle)

There are two systems
both of which confirm all aspects of logic
when consummates reached--
their logic can go no further pass'd  that joint.

One system is the glory of reason and a belief in systems.
Here there are no disagreements between varied pursuits--
for they all fundamentally believe in their connections as the means to 
reach
further and further to that consummation,
a wonder of exploded pearls and false movements breeding recognition.

The other system believes in no system;  is wedded to the beauty of 
illogic:
the realm of the drifter, the outlaw, the small voices joined together 
to refute the dizzying blazes of the conglomerates.
This system is also striving for consummation-filled with numerous worlds 
and hidden 	movements.

Now each will, in the course of their chosen road,
take upon themselves the qualities of their opposite--
this is each system's logic and inherently, it's illogic.
For They can not dance without each other
for without, the other will smother some other, itself
in its own logic or illogic (which ever the case may be),
there being no means to recreate itself at that crucial moment--
the transmigration into its opposite.

Alas, there comes the point reached where such barriers as these pithy 
brains
fortify thereof, are lost, where logic and illogic condense into a new 
and wonderful "cohesion"
not a form for a form implies substance abuse,
a cohesion where these terminals are seen for what they are--players in 
an unknown play,
an unknown preserving its beauty and defending that beauty--a beauty 
striving for 	consummation.

Now remember, each will try to joint their many roles (there are but two: 
 you! or V?)
and never once during one's time will one know if they are really one or
just another zero,
a rock-it chasing its roll.


Richard Romeo
Coordinator of Cooperating Collections
The Foundation Center-NYC
212-807-2417
rromeo at fdncenter.org