I like to listen for turns of phrase, vernacular utterances that hold place while expressing some kind of wisdom about the world. The first line of this piece was mentioned by a man I worked with in a woodshop in Dawson city (1994). He may have been referring to my inablilty to cut wood to consistent lengths, I can't remember, but as he said it, I jotted it down with a marker on a wood scrap (below) let it turn in my mind a couple of times...then once more to make a point.
This poster (below) was in that woodshop as well. I recreated as a piece of art and it initiated a minor interest in symmetrical phrases; I keep finding and losing the name of this literary format. The structure of language has a meaning that is both connected to, and above and beyond the meaning of the words that are used.
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