{ Elizabeth Macklin, Sign Language. }
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delgaSign Language
by Elizabeth Macklin
Where the great hands
spell out the A
to Z and a
scatter clearly
means scatter, a
pinkie held to
the heart then
an eye means
I see, the grammar
of which doesn't
matter: a non-
restrictive
relation's
conveyed by a
gesture; the face
is the only
true place for
expressions of
love, indecision,
rapture; two hands
brushing the
air past the ears
mean "You lost me,"
were over my head,
while love still
appears on the
heart (two crossed hands),
not in the head,
and practice
is one hand a plane
planing the back
of the other—
We do so nearly
believe we'll have
said what we needed
to say, with our
long training.
by Elizabeth Macklin
Where the great hands
spell out the A
to Z and a
scatter clearly
means scatter, a
pinkie held to
the heart then
an eye means
I see, the grammar
of which doesn't
matter: a non-
restrictive
relation's
conveyed by a
gesture; the face
is the only
true place for
expressions of
love, indecision,
rapture; two hands
brushing the
air past the ears
mean "You lost me,"
were over my head,
while love still
appears on the
heart (two crossed hands),
not in the head,
and practice
is one hand a plane
planing the back
of the other—
We do so nearly
believe we'll have
said what we needed
to say, with our
long training.
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I didn't go to sleep till 4am; this morning I did my laundry, and went to Pw. with T. Food, yay. Now I'm sitting here looking at my dissertation draft and wondering where the fuck to go from here. I may just watch Touching Evil.
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Tranquilize is fucking awesome. The only thing that could possibly improve it is if the first verse had a female voice reciting the lyrics in a flat tone. The harmony would kill me.
