The Necessity of a New Language

I don't know whether an individual
or an era needs it, but what I'm
here to say today is, you've got
to learn your own language.

We get that when we're learning
language, learning to speak, but
somehow when people begin to be
taught it, they begin to
accept the fallacy that there are
forms to be kept and adhered to.

But I say, new language is not
only necessary, but it is
constantly inevitable, and therefore
ridiculous to try and prevent.

I try to write poems in my own language,
something that is relevant to me,
and therefore something doubly new
for my readers, because I have no
interest in aping what has come before,
maybe update, but never duplicate,
because that isn't my authentic voice,
but rather someone else's.

If I'm to think for myself,
or at least tell myself that I
am doing so, I might as well do it
do it with my own language, too.

The words I use, the phrases
I continually revert to, it's
all to establish a pattern,
a language, that will announce
that I am myself, that I have
discovered myself in the world.

All because I can't do so
without it.