Duffie Taylor

1.

This person is not a thing

And it doesn't matter who he is or if he is a he

This person does not matter,

I mean that he is a person, this he

That is not a thing except that

It matters only in the case

That this person is not a thing, then it matters, it matters very much,

Not so much that he is a person as much as he is not a thing

This person matters only when he is not a thing

This person matters in so far as this person is not a thing matters being not a thing that really matters

And being this person, a person who is not a thing,

A person who is not a thing that matters

If he is a he, that he is a he matters,

This person matters, this person that is not a thing

 

2.

 

This poem is a bird that lives until it dies

The bird lives in this poem and dies in this poem

In this poem some time the bird will die

The bird will die in this poem

If it hasn't already died it will soon die or already has died or will die in this poem

This poem will not live and the bird will die

The bird will not live and this poem will die

The bird has died, is dying, will die very soon

In this very poem if it hasn't already died or is dying

This poem is a bird that lives until it dies

 

3.

 

The shelf describes the paper

The paper describes the shelf,

The paper describes the paper describes the papers describes the paper,

The paper describes 1,2,3,4 and so on, so on describes 1,2,3,4,

4 describes 3, 3 describes 2, 2 describes 1, 1 describes one, one describes 1 describes 1,2,3,4

and so on describes the paper, one describes the shelf, the paper describes the shelf,

The shelf describes the paper

 

4.

 

Only once has green escaped the apple

Some say, never has green escaped the apple

They are right.

Only once has green escaped bright

Some say, never has green escaped bright

They are right.

Only once has green escaped the apple that is bright

Never once, some say, has green escaped the apple that is bright

They are right.

Only once has green escaped the bright apple that is green

Never once, some say, never, never, never has green escaped the bright apple that is green

Never once, some say, never, never, never has the bright apple that is green escaped green

They are right.