Textile 10

A jumper knitted throughout, a sweater's overcoming mimesis
                                                                                                                      Less

"Chapter 1 has been suspended in a warehouse / of textiles for 1000th of a second"—at
         once a sentence and a sentence in poetics.
                                                                                         Lesser

at once a linguistic event and a linguistic event styled after installation.
                                                                                                                                      Least

Impossible work finds hypothetical situations.
                                                                                         Good

Situations impersonating a book, speech acts walking across stage
                                                                                                                      Better

situations impersonating a boot, speech acts walking across a stag. 
                                                                                                                      Best

Suspended in a warehouse, a literacy campaign
                                                                                         Loudest

suspended in a disused textile factory, textiles and a second literacy campaign
         after cultural evisceration.
                                                        Louder.

A woman removing her jumper (sweater) in a textile factory
                                                                                                                     Loud

removes a jumper (sweater), then another pulled inside out, says aloud, 
         "And now, for the retrograde inversion."


 

Copyright Credit: Marjorie Welish, "Textile 10" from Word Group. Copyright © 2004 by Marjorie Welish.  Reprinted by permission of Coffee House Press.