The Subject Is a Being without a Nature

The Subject Is a Being without a Nature

Once, nature: being 

without a subject. 

Now, the subject: a being 

without a nature. 

Once, fullness 

& animal dumbness. 

Now, language, tongue, la, 

signifying illness, emptiness.

La, a foreign verb bound to other verbs, 

other selves, all in a chain, 

unending, infinite, rhetorical. 

Larynx a tool of persuasion. 

LaLangue: master; I, its slave.

Yet words are not things 

I wish to talk about. 

I speak, but it is not I. 

The eye looks out, but cannot speak.

Speak for yourself? You cannot. 

There is no self 

before the speech. 

Language alone is speaking.