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If I let the ending
Wishes in the air
If I let the ending
If I left the ending
If I let the ending continue
Which is in the air
What you wished for
Which is desire
If I let the ending continue
Which is entire in the air
If I left impending continue
If I left the end to you
Which is regenerating your sleep
Which is longing to be misspelled
Wishes belonging to be misspelled
Which is unequivocally misspelled
A part of the tissue
The tissue being looked at
If I let understanding which is belonging to me
If I left understanding to you
The part of the issue
If I let understanding
Which is belonging to me
Not only in my dreams
If I let understanding
Wishes belonging to me
If I let understanding variously
Withstand
If I let understanding variously
Which is belonging to me
Withstand indirect
Wishes belonging to me
Exhibited not only through dreams
That gets understanding variously
Exhibited wishes belonging to me
If we let the ending
I let the end continue
So that which is misspelled
In your regenerative sleep
If I let the end continue
Misspelled which is being notated
If I let the ending continue
Which is misspelled by being notated
I let the ending continue
Which is belonging to the rotation
Which is misspelled by being rotated
If I left the ending for you
Which is belonging
If I left understanding to you
Which is misspelled by your dreams
Which is expelled from your dreams
Which is misspelled dreams
If I left understanding to you
Which is unequivocal
If I left understanding to you
Part of the issue misspelled
If I let the ending
If I let the ending continue
If I left impending continue
If I left the end to you
We can meet in this place
And we can look at objects
If I let the ending
Which is the air you wished for
We can look at the map of the city
We can look at the floorplan
And find the map of the city
We look at the floorplan
Demarcating the time
We look at the map of the city
We look at the floorplan
Demarcating
Regenerative time that we share
Aspects of the museum
And there’s no way out of the museum
Without passing them
Which doesn’t preclude
The possibility to not talk about
How we see it
I don’t know you
But they belong to us
They are on exhibit
I don’t know you
But we are meeting here
They are on exhibit
They exhibit us
They belong to us
They belong on exhibit
They are no exit
Have no exit
They are no exhibit
But they belong on exhibit
They exhibit us
But they belong to us
They belong on exhibit
But they exhibit us
But they belong
We can meet in this place
And we can look
We can meet in this place
And we can look at objects
With their properties
With their explanations
They are on exhibit
But they belong to us
In fact there’s no way
Into the rest of the space
Without looking at them
And ask why
We still have to look at them
Jesse Seldess lives in Karlsruhe, Germany with his wife, the artist Leonie Weber. He edits Antennae, a journal of experimental writing and language-based music and performance scores at http://www.antennae-journal.com/, and is the author of two books of poems, Who Opens and On Condition of the Others Being Present (Kenning Editions, 2006 and forthcoming). “Which Is Exhibited” appears in full in An Instance, a chapbook sampler on Instance Press.