Catherine Maffioletti
MPhil/PhD
Proposing
| Text says: | " I suggest that you read me out loud." |
| Text left out | ...don't read me in your head, your head can't speak... |
| Text wants: | " Put me in your mouth so that I can exit you." |
| Text left over: | ...I am unstable in my demand for you to hang on my every word, for me to hang in/out of your mouth... |
| Text asks: | " I propose that you embody this - shape me with your speech." |
| Text spilt: | ...Roll me off your tongue - with your slip of the tongue and whip words up into a lip grip lock, to speak easily. Cut yours/mine - split - we speakin' tongues... |
| Text exclaims: | " I proposition you." |
| Text forgot: | ...that we/bbed words, now that I am wracked with wordiness to bookish ends... |
| Text assumes: | " Pro/p(r)osing with fore-cite, to predict the aftermath of what is developing in these claims here." |
| Text carries on: | ...can't say how it will come from you, if at all... |
| Text invokes: | " I insight you to speak." |
| Text can’t stop: | ...to talk this out, talk it out/over, talk me out of this, to talk you into speaking me, otherwise the work is is/not here... |
| Text implores: | " I urge you over, to come over to this side with me." |
| Text re-cycle: | ...to read me round to your way of speaking... |
| Text demands: | " Read me out loud! " |
| Text’s last attempt: | ...to make me work, to make this work, to hear me/you at work, to realise this works... |
| (Unknown): | Re-read, said the unsaid. |