E Mail to Damniso Lopez #167

E MAIL TO DAMNISO LOPEZ 167

Her socially constituted consciousness
transcribed my transportation as an unprofitable
self-interpretation.
She declared ex cathedra that
I must have my car washed.
She interpolated the generous, although ironic,
offer that she would pay for the transaction.
I countered by asserting that the layer of dust
on my car was a symbol expressing my love
of the earth.
But she replied my intended meaning was not
Being transmitted to the quotidian minds. People,
she continued, respond as automatons
of an unalterable meaning system
that is preconceived, if not understood.
Popular Hermeneutics is what has been spoken
into people, and is not based on any thing
personal or experienced.
No one, she continued, will ever understand
your oppositional stance towards current
social formations.
Your dirty car will be interpreted as a symbol
for the lack of respect
for what people believe
to be sacred, the automobile.
You will be accused
Of decomposing and reconfiguring the sacred,
The known, and deemed as an enemy of progress
And in need of resignification. I replied, I
Love you in spite of our differing ideologies,
Therefore I will allow to pay for having my car
Washed. But the earth does move. I mean
I still love the earth.


Duane Locke

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