Jargons IV (1) Poem by Ulf Stolterfoht

opens brightly: sentences exist. deduces claims:
full of words. and that is all there is.
in overtones a merely as what's surely commonly:
good perception of fruit — may well
stand for other things. complete perception of
good fruit — here's how it functions:

like apples eyes and. not to mention pears.
presumes pending corroboration: the apple does not
see itself. in this it's like the eye. you can't tell from
the looks of one (please look at this as a sentence)
it's being looked at by another. 'please look at this as
a sentence' likewise to be looked at as a sentence etc.

'is to say' takes place. aspects apace. one owes/
thanks/is obliged. 'is to mean' goes haywire. also
'more later' belongs here. strong feelings of happiness
through fruit. a newer. a better. a dapper
perhaps. perhaps mere structures but at least crude
and pure. leads from needy to approximate. the word

of fruit in the eye of the beholder. the post as
beam or mote. the sentence of the hereditary
branch. the word of trunk a hybrid. first: the
wrong fruit in the right place. then: the tree as
word — a good sentence. then if I'm not mistaken
the whole tree on the left as strongest branch.

Translated by Rosmarie Waldrop