Butler Response

THE TASK OF THESE MOVEMENTS

Head shoulders knees and toes

Knees and toes,

Knees

And toes

They develop argument, in order to speak.

"I tried to say...

and paused from its deadly brink."

Desire for transformation itself

In fear, the roots grip downward

the boundaries of our distances

We seem caught in reality together

(so how should I save you?)

Eyes and ears, mouth and nose

Head shoulders

knees and toes.

I apply lines to create shadows,

but you are plain abyss.

blanketed by concerns of not fitting

creaking towards infinity.

Displace these.

Put them in my pocket

And then

Shout!

And let em loose!

A livable life does eviscerate various levels of stability

Knees and toes sojourn at the orphanage.

To remove an essential part of something

and displace these. And, desiring for the whole of it to be for me having a toe be

your toe. Can it be our toe?

No

Because I have it. You be it.

No

And so I weaken it

the unlivable ambivalence is too hard.

So I push back the toe to the ideal

where it is smooshed into a sock

Transferring desire to an ideal of the imaginary.

Contained in my dreams
situationally symbolic

uncanny in it's return.

Some things were said,

never desiring equilibrium

the smell of bodies and procedures

Glassed in dreams.

(Ian,  Michael, & Monica)