Track 5: Q: What does it mean to be understood? A: Last night I dreamed, I was in denial.
Learning how to talk/ Learning how to talk/ Learning how to talk to one another/ What does it take/ to know how to speak/ clearly communicating/ to one another/ how can we speak the same language/ how is it to be understood/ what conditions supply this/ it is a struggle/ to meet together/ in the same way/ that it takes/ to have a need/ to have a quality/ to have a gesture where/ one could be understood/ what does it mean to understand/ to stand under it/ below it/ beyond it/ how can I hear the bird speak/ how can I hear the wind/ is it to be understood/ I can try/ if I can take the quality/ of understanding myself/ and that I don’t know/ can that be a step/ towards/ being in my reality/ being present with an energy inside of me/ in my core/ building it/ to be able to accept and translate/ what I do not know/ hieroglyphics/ symbols/ gestures/ visual auditory/ tastes/ scent/ how do I know that what I am explaining can be received and understood/ I know that I don’t know myself as well as I would like/ because I often get stuck/ without words/ without meaning/ though the positive aspects of that/ can be more clear/ in the experience that I’m having/ rather than the relay of information through my associative words picked and pulled/ strung out/ on a line/ two tin cans/ toot in canons/ talking/ painting/ everything/ what does it mean to be understood/