occasional poem (was Re: The Movement Is Everything? (was Re: Rob Schaap on Foucault)

[Alec Ramsdell]

> All the same, the
> structuralism the later 
> Foucault abandoned for a sense of the poly-amorphous
> perverse, this 
> structuralism taught that opposites are things alike
> in all 
> significant respects but one.  So when Foucault
> speaks of a war of 
> each against all, and in the next breath even hints
> of a Christian 
> divided self -- "And there is always within each of
> us something that 
> fights something else" -- we are tempted to believe
> that he and 
> Hobbes have more in common than the fact that, with
> the exception of 
> Hobbes, both were bald. (_Waiting for Foucault_
> 37-8)   *****
> 
> Yoshie

Along for the ride, here's an homage to _Fight Club_.

Dear Reader, mark the micro-politics at work.  It's
very Foucault. 

Now the Leaves Are Falling Fast

Steeped in the tepid embellishments of end of day,
Evening's horizon opens the market to her wishful

                                           thinking,
Salutes his efforts at accountability and record

                                           keeping,
And between a nod and wink, severs pine tree from sky.

Where all divisions widen a milk-white pill makes

                                           whole,
When powdered water provokes the walls to whispers,
When second thoughts describe complicity of neighbors,
When the sum result stutters, staggering the fittest

                                           will.

In outrageous highlights their day of offices and

                                           chairs
Appears to dismantle shams and promises tommorrow;
The season's serial departures fade to focus and

                                           narrow;
And evening's orchid contracts as night's dull thumb

                                           forswears.

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