infra-thin

so, i love all this return to the infra-thin - i had forgotten about that already. it's so small it disappeared from my mind. i was thinking by way of clarification. l, were you talking wistfully about the small lines? it sounded like it - like it was the formal mama of your numerology.

the post came at the same time that we were watching "rope" on dvd again. the movie, (hitchcock) was shot as a continuous scene, focussing on someone's back when they ran out of tape. but, anyway there are no cuts.

on the doc that accompanied the movie, the screenwriter, this hilarious old crank, was like "i don't know why he did that - it didn't add anything to the movie" and on and on and on, and called it a gimmick etc. and i thought, "wow, that's a screenwriter talking." cause poets (this one, at least) are(is) so much less interested in the "why" of the technique than we are in where it gets us. as duncan says, "poetry is the boat." so, i guess i'm going to form is never more (and often less) than an extension of content - if the boats made out of a house, it'll float in this or that lake, if the boat's an oil tanker, it won't fit in my bathtub. uh, wtf. uh.

i think i quote duncan everytime i post. i don't care though. as duncan say, "i don't care."

so, like the infra-thin, we can dream with the form, not mean with it.