WRITING - DEMOCRISES: BROKEN REALITY
The book, DEMOCRISES, was written by Jack in his exile in Bristol, after he has completed “On Beauty”; dedicated to Shula. These are the opening words…
BROKEN (CONCRETE) REALITY:
Concrete reality is often spoken about in glowing tones; as the personification of the Real.
It is a harsh reality, born of the concrete sharp-angles of certitude and mathematical precision and meant for sharp-angled people, with cutting edges.
People who seek to hide away in concrete institutions, from the tidal flow without, that is, the incessant tide that brings change, reject fluid forms with a human heart-beat. They prefer the stillness of emptiness.
Concrete reality costs lives; brings death from its ingrained need for conquest.
Whenever anyone speaks of this concrete reality in those radiant terms, beware of the consequences.
They will lock fluid people in concrete cisterns, which do not permit flow. Ideas may float, but they are in stagnant water.
Ideological manifestos are really construction blue-prints for political gaols and correction centres, camps that concentrate the mind on the inevitability of mortality.
Barbed-wire fences hum with political ideological power; blister the skin and cut the paper flesh of the oppressed to shreds of unreadable testimonies.
We are left with ‘broken lines’ of poetry. Staccato pulses of resistance.
And the poetry of Democrises…
Jack Stanza
