Some Comics Explained

Words were never so simple as we were taught to believe. Tricksters of the trade make things look like all the chess moves were preordained. And if we are reading second hand, through the prism of translation, so much the better for our lack of understanding!

Words are not to understand, but to experience, to share, the ordinary daily world we work so hard at from being cornered.

Do we understand the invisible string of musical notes? What do they mean? Already heard and gone, and where did they go, these industrial sounds?

Words work within their industry, economy, structures.

Dust particles, falling, drifting, piling up, the tongue the only rule, the teeth, lips, mouth.

The poem is an old thing, some kind of tool, maybe, an implement, but what was it used for?

He started off so serious, as if he were out to save something, someone. But first he had to persuade there was some danger. These comics, by the way, these unsophisticated, small-scale drawings, are made with fingers on the simplest of phone apps, with just a few basic colors, and no tricks.

Daylight Savings

The moon looked like a pearl. He heard a familiar voice: “Did you remember to carry the garbage can to the curb?”

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He slept all day and at night drew cartoons.

Modes.

But mostly at night, in the middle of the night, when sleeplessness becomes comical.