Lyrics IV - Buried Inside

IV

Mandate piled on mandate, verdicts stacked high, dust-covered and time-worn,
signed by solicitors general and bound by library services.
A mounting legacy of heroic solutions and failed actions that can’t be
normalized and interpreted away -used to placate all the lives shamed and
denied.
Custom is the greatest of weavers: devoid of useful memory and locked in fixed
movements.
No small madness confusing symptoms with cause.
A convenience of definition.
Condemnation narrowed to a point.
Better to drill it in.
Benign as a bullet, meanings are inseparable from purposes.
We want to do something, and a definition is a means of doing it.
If we want certain results, than we must use certain definitions.
But no definition has any authority apart from a purpose…
I.A.
Richards, Interpretation in Teaching