Dirt Against Glyphs -- jim leftwich
America is opening its calendars to the doorless music. With over two frothing aesthetics, the pizza was great and greasy, from the low arcades of our American Avenue. I was making a living delivering souvlakis and cheese steaks to the college students. I would get home from work around 3 in the morning. We lived out in the woods, south of Charlottesville. A dirt path led from the parking area to the porch. I would draw or scrawl or write or scribble with glue sticks on sheets of printer paper. Slowly, epic magazines encroach on an asemic fire. Insidious finagle nudges either pox or pax.
Glyph
a symbol (such as a curved arrow on a road sign) that conveys information nonverbally.
A glyph is a symbol — it can represent a word, letter, or number, and it can also be a mark that tells you how to pronounce a letter.
any kind of purposeful mark
a picture or symbol that represents a word, used in some writing systems,
Ostensibly verbal quotation marks. A magnified map of mud on film. Small red ants in incessant motion are an incurable illness of light. A bottle of hats limp on a floatless boat.
Giant octagonal typhoons. Several slow syntaxes hovering over an exemplary evening. Everyone has a hunch of glue.
Dirt, from Drit
drit n.
Forms
Forms
drit n. Also drite, dritte & dirt(e, dird, dert, durt.
(a) Excrement, droppings; dung; feces; (b) hunt. the dung of certain animals; (c) cattes ~, dove ~, gandres ~, gotes ~, hors ~, mannes ~, mous ~, swines ~.
2.
(a) Mud, dirt; ~ of erthe, ~ of the strete; (b) in place names
(a) Mud, dirt; ~ of erthe, ~ of the strete; (b) in place names
3.
Fig. (a) Something worthless or degrading; worldly possessions, filthy lucre; ertheli ~, worldli ~; (b) something vile or sinful; sakke of ~; (c) ~ carl, ~ cherl, a worthless fellow; ?one who hauls or spreads dung; also as surname; (d) the develes ~, the Devil's filth; -- used in imprecations.
Fig. (a) Something worthless or degrading; worldly possessions, filthy lucre; ertheli ~, worldli ~; (b) something vile or sinful; sakke of ~; (c) ~ carl, ~ cherl, a worthless fellow; ?one who hauls or spreads dung; also as surname; (d) the develes ~, the Devil's filth; -- used in imprecations.
We went to the shore near Salvo on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. I took some glue sticks and some printer paper out to the beach. It was daylight, which made everything different. It was also 9 years later and it was not Virginia. The results refused to satisfy my unrealistic expectations.
The day is a war and the century is its anniversary. Segments and thousands of untrue intelligence, beware the additives of a salient noon. Not an onion. Not a piano. Not Crimea. Not a death's-head-hawk-moth. Not the ancient werewolves with all of their broken spoons.
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03.27.2023
