Sunday, September 26, 2010

Guest Poem – Exchange Value #2 by Kai Fierle-Hedrick


Exchange Value #2; 24 September 2010


[...] You see me there [...]


[...] It’s that abstract [...]


+ Rachel Zolf, ‘Poem 35 – Learning machines’




I say [...] and we assess our difference:


stiffen with divisions and the prompt


to concede the stereotype: now we are ticks


and ticks of boxes: now not: we are awkward


humor turned currency: ransom: or code


for the labels we shy: in this classroom


owning each projection troubles it.


It(‘)s ease. It(‘)s lack of exchange.

2 comments:

  1. the second-to-last line is fascinating, in terms of the collaboration (in addition to being a fine line in itself). "trouble" here defines (or massages) itself: to affect a trajectory. this, of course, is what these poems are doing to each other (and this is what the poems do to each other's course(s))—owning, but also giving, each projection. and radiating pleasure.

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