Poems
by KJ Hannah Greenberg

 

 

Dear Little Detail

 

Ruminate over the hamal who ported encouragement for many aspirants.

“[O]nce words become fixed onto clay or papyrus, they became objects with

[E]xistences of their own[,] constitute[d] units of information,”1 not mere kits.

 

Society, represented by famed persons, was defined by more than its parts’ sum.

Denizens & leaders, alike, recognized that loosely, or otherwise, individuals could,

Should, impact the collective’s direction even if illiberal detractors protested plenty.

 

See, indiscriminate acceptance of ideas converted us into anaesthetized ignoramuses,

Yoked us to superfluous communal mysteries, caused a hesitation to engage in crucial

Whistleblowing, open surplusage’s gates, focus ourselves on rulers’ odd idiosyncrasies.

 

Cultural inimitability ill-served villeins; civilization best functions once all folks convey

Constructs concurrent with interpreting verbalizations & manufacturing: their identities,

Social acceptability, linguistic reliability, as week as relative logical sensibility.

 

Both microscopic, explicitly, syntagmatic traits, additionally macroscopic, i.e.,

Channel-specific, attributes, employ notational modes; adaptations impact

Ideas’ framing, else create events or illuminate meaning’s morality.

 

Observe that civilization’s quoins, in farthest scenarios, constitute

Sundry behaviors, counting psychomotor & affective acts, even

Pause actions governed by explicit, mutable rules.

 

 

Jorge G. Schement and Hartmut B. Mokros. “The Social and Historical Construction of the Idea of Information as Thing.” International Communication Association Convention. U Dublin P, 1990,  5.

 

 

 

 

 

To Arrogate

 

To claim without justification, like bandits, worse, terrorists, means

Laic will rub harn over eyes, likewise, ignore social weirs until every

Populace feels alienated.

 

It’s equally true that in depicting cultural and individual practices, evil

Beings experience no compunction while defiling, beheading, immolating

Opposing factions.

 

When morality shifts adown, wanton sirrahs and their misses tend toward

Ignoring all signposts of civility; there’s small reward keeping mores flouted

By rulers.

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