PAROLE IN LIBERTA
In our probation/parole office
are:
a bullet proof glass--
a metal detetector--
Forms to fill out
Whereabouts
whenabouts
whatabouts
to check
In our probation/parole office
Is one sign:
As a courtesy
to others
Remove hats
and other
headgear
--dave baptiste chirot 25 may 2000
(Note: "parole in liberta": "words in freedom". F. T.
Marinetti, the founder of Italian Futurism in 1909, used this term/slogan
to call for a poetry written in visual layouts covering the page moving in
various directions, with various forms and sizes of lettering. The visual
layouts and letterings make a sound and word score for vocal performance.
The letters make both onomatopoeic sounds and phonetically spelled words
as well as standardized spellings of words. Many of Marinetti's own
"parole in liberta" glorified war and the dynamism of speed and
machines.)
