Poems
by KJ Hannah
Greenberg
Attenuating
Instrumental, i.e., fitting, purposes can be endorsed by hegemonical
Interchanges. An instructor might refer to an “honest” speaker but be
Limited by references admitting precincts for talk, script, convergence.
Explanation of non-superfluous intentions, like relating moral principles,
Require hermeneutic approaches to handle many of the fathomable actions
Occurring beyond the scope of day to day rhetoric; we’re stupid in that way.
It remains sagacious to posit that the weakening of moral fiber could glamour
The lessening of magnitude attributed to goodness, else the decreasing force by
Which we predict the amount/variety of individual & institutional accountability.
However, upright governance requires inclusivity, is aided by authentic dialogue,
Demands debate, often disregards proximate conditions for phenomena, structural
Social conflicts, as well as history’s sway on rights, freedoms, price of life, finances.
Disreputable superior/subordinate communication adds up to peculiar interpretations
For apposite responsibility, necessarily calculates maximum answerability as pertinent
To possible ripostes including experience, position, also seniority, excluding kickbacks.
The Examination of Human Interaction
Perspectives neither lead to semantic entropy nor stifling expressions.
Universal insights, simultaneous, abstract sensibilities, regularly yielding
Shared conceptualizations, providing outlooks, demystifying bewilderment.
Less deleterious are assemblages of verdicts issued by unassuming people.
Thus, it remains sagacious to posit the legitimacy of all voices creating truth.
Also, we must bump up the problems associated with our ethical accountability.
Most of us possess some answerability for investigating human interaction.
It endures as rhetorically insufficient to leave problems to politicians, pit bosses,
Dictators. Whereas such roles seem culturally sizzling, they’re small, arable crofts.
See, discrepancies between idealized and realized depictions of goings-on often
Shoves semantic screening to a second-order line of inquiry, often relegate queries.
On the whole, linguistic criticism should always provide grids for reality’s illumination.
Sure, much oratory’s less palatable to specialized audiences than mind-numbed masses.
Yet, words in nonseparatist roles, tend to envisage possibilities past the status quo, ne’er
Purport to share ideas while preventing “outsiders” joining in any of those collective gists.
Rizz
Liberty’s a struggle created by the magics of peace and pleasure. It’s
Built on tragic feelings including fear plus pity. Such delusions leave us
Heirs to vast, complex norms, to conflicts between patricians and plebians.
(In situations devoid of sufficient restraint, the highest good goes missing.)
If vehicles for expressing the greatest possible outcome were buoyed
By land or taxes, then administered thru courts, fruitful, also meaningful
Interactions would be our divided society’s burden. Consider how primitive
Notions of statesmanship formalize our acknowledgements of rights and duties.
The ability to woe, to charm, might manifest in community art festivals
Like Féile an Phobail, Art Basil, Art Beijing, & The Investec Cape Art Fair.
See, the path of naïve discovery brims with opportunities scarfed by ideological
Dimensions full of folks quietly gaming the position of our empire amid kingdoms.
When congeners compare relative strengths, ordinarily, shared evolution occurs.
All in all, immutable behaviors are a legacy of sorts derived from evolved answers.
In a dystopic world, conversely, no manner of politics, art, even war evoke sufficient
Charisma to supply civilization with more than conventional, competitive personalities.
