Monday, January 16, 2012

January 13 - Democrazy


I often find I can’t find the words I want to type.  Words become worlds to me at times - not because I find them to be microcosms of keystrokes, encompassing so much intent in so few lines – but because my clumsy, shaking fingers have decided that that would be a better interpretation of my meaning. 

            Perhaps it’s some Freudian slip that makes words into worlds and that has left a sentence unfinished as “Friction acts” after hitting enter instead of space.  Or some desire to speak my own tongue (I think that’s what makes me replace h with j with alarming frequency).

            But it must be some different kind of intent that turns democracy into democrazy.  Nor do I think that it can simply be chalked up to typos.  And it must be more than the proximity of keys.  For I think I’m trying to tell the world something (or perhaps the word).  So that I might make my own language of Freudian slips and linguistic lusts.  Yet I think, sometimes, that this is simply a case of typos.  Or perhaps my own stupidity…

            … that calls out to me through a new patois of pen slips. Telling me that rule by the people only ever occurs with crazy people.

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