I dreamed a dream profound and wise <br />about the state of man: <br />the brain a mass of wriggly worms, <br />the mind an old tin can.. <br /> <br />The first word presents the semiotic question <br />of authorial authority: <br />is this a real person recounting <br />a ‘real’ dream, insofar as <br />dreams are ‘real’, and thus <br />presenting the authority of detached observation <br />(insofar as accepted structures of waking, <br />sleeping, dreaming, etc., are assumed, <br />thus ‘fictitious’ in an absolute sense) <br /> <br />or, is this a hermeneutic introductory opening <br />implying a proairetic forward movement? <br /> <br />moving on rapidly to the whole first line, <br />what is the authorial stance in ‘profound and wise’? <br />is the ‘author’ asserting the semantic truth of this dream, <br />or is this a lexia which is presented to the reader to resolve <br />in his or her own reading? <br />or is simply buttressing the symbolic integrity <br />of the ontological construct presented? <br /> <br />jeezus the more I read the deconstruction <br />the more I think the first verse could be true<br /><br />Michael Shepherd<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-poem-deconstructing-itself-in-homage-to-barthes-and-derrida-for-wendy-if-she-can-decode-it/
