both personal and political

[beckybmw]

"For the destination is always staring just out-of-view and all the signs are flashing 'access denied.'  I make meaning of the failure to arrive, for so often it is a breaking down of the chain of sense that lets me find my way.  A way away from the scanning over and over what went wrong--the failure of community that may, in flits and faults, give way to conversation.  I start with the senselessness of the world and try to make some sense with it, as if words were visceral and thoughts could be tolls.  It's the loss, I want to say, I don't know of what--but not to find either (neither voice nor truth:  voicings, trusts)."

--Charles Bernstein
from My Way Speeches & Poems, University of Chicago Press, 1990