Commemoration

Cooperate, coordinate,
Monitor, and commemorate.
In true language, in language’s
Hovering cloud, begins the state.

It’s all there in first sentences,
The symbols wavering in the air,
In talking about where you weren’t,
In saying, we know where you were.

The game and the contract are talk.
Hunting parties, war parties, talk.
Talk draws all convictions from talk.
Every mystery comes from talk.

Think back, think far, think hard. Your life,
Recipient of snaking lines,
Can you recall the final night
You dreamt as a language-free child?