I thought it was cool that she didn't put a period at the ends of the stanzas even when they were the end of sentence, which made my eyes "cross" to the next stanza expecting the sentence to continue but then I'd get "hit" with a new sentence instead.
“If it were it could mean, / ‘Strange how death is built into the design’ / And we’d notice how unnecessary / and how carelessly arranged.” We take a lot of our infrastructure and urban planning as something that is “natural” or as something beyond good design and arrangement, as something that doesn’t have intention and power behind it the same way we tend to do with poetry. A car crash is not a poem because we cannot recognize it as something designed. Brilliant
I heard that stanza as a commentary on the universe and how "death" (entropy) is built into the design - and how we would expect to do better if we were in charge. But when we look at the environments we construct (previous stanzas), we find similar failings.
"A car crash is not a poem, because pain is not a metaphor." That hits.
I thought it was cool that she didn't put a period at the ends of the stanzas even when they were the end of sentence, which made my eyes "cross" to the next stanza expecting the sentence to continue but then I'd get "hit" with a new sentence instead.
Wonderful wonderful. The flow is incredible, the words click
oh this is GOOD
“If it were it could mean, / ‘Strange how death is built into the design’ / And we’d notice how unnecessary / and how carelessly arranged.”
We take a lot of our infrastructure and urban planning as something that is “natural” or as something beyond good design and arrangement, as something that doesn’t have intention and power behind it the same way we tend to do with poetry. A car crash is not a poem because we cannot recognize it as something designed. Brilliant
I heard that stanza as a commentary on the universe and how "death" (entropy) is built into the design - and how we would expect to do better if we were in charge. But when we look at the environments we construct (previous stanzas), we find similar failings.
Wow
I don't get the meaning