Politely Politely
And how might I say “the beauty of ideas”
Relates to the idea of beauty,
If it in notion relates? If this notion relates,
It presupposes that it relates.
Which precedes, we ask?
Dwindling into itself does the question,
and I careen past it again and again.
In asking, I have taken what of it that is there,
There determining; and I have said what it has
Determined, though sanctioned by that it has
Determined. Standing static to the idea
Of beauty is, presumably, those ideas which
I find beautiful. Does the beauty of ideas
Give me the idea of beauty or is it my act
Of speaking through the beauty of ideas?
The act; the beauty; the idea; no idea acts,
But neither do we see “beauty” acting; or
Beauty acting; is “beauty” an act of itself?
Who finds therein the quote what is outside of it?
The subject entreats its own proclivity as subject;
Politely though seeming, but trampling in fact.