" Rewrite the story that has not yet been told

unwrite the story we have already heard.  "

There are no rules we adhere to

for we are, the inventors

inventing with every breath out

our tongues curling ready to make new sounds.

Tell me something that I haven't heard yet

tell me something that I haven't heard yet.

Let us unfold this map from the beginning

and create a new meaning for all that we once knew.

Let us talk, decipher and amplify until words don't exist anymore.

Forming thought into noise,

without tangling oneself inside the loops of the unsaid.

And then rest awhile in the gaps between words

and the spaces between lines

for it is quiet and explosive in the same breath here.

Being still determines the path of movement

grounding.grounding. makes where we need to go obvious.

Do not lose yourself in the monotony –

do not lose yourself in the lines, they have drawn for us.

This battle between apathy and art is on.

Take out your markers and your chalk,

your red pens and your poetry

and lets rescript this.

Rewrite the story that has not yet been told

unwrite the story we have already heard.

There are no rules we adhere to

for we are, the inventors.

Inventing with every breath out

our tongues curling ready to make new sounds.

We create our chances

and how we are in this now.

So what, do you want to exist?


Chay-Ya Clancy
2006