Marjorie Welish

 

 
Textile 10
 
 


A jumper knitted throughout, a sweater's overcoming mimesis
                                                                                                       Less

"Chapter 1 has been suspended in a warehouse / of textiles for 1000th of a second" –at
       once a sentence and a sentence in a poetics.
                                                                                   Lesser

at once a linguistic event and a linguistic event styled after installation.
                                                                                                                   Least

Impossible work finds hypothetical situations.
                                                                            Good

Situations impersonating a book, speech acts walking across stage
                                                                                                               Better

situations impersonating a boot, speech acts walking across a stag.
                                                                                                                Best

Suspended in a warehouse, a literacy campaign
                                                                                 Loudest

suspended in a disused textile factory, textiles and a second literacy campaign
     after cultural evisceration.
                                                  Louder

A woman removing her jumper (sweater) in a textile factory
                                                                                                   Loud

removes a jumper {sweater}, then another pulled inside out, says aloud,
    "And now, for the retrograde inversion:"