SINS DEADLY SOME
by Hannah Weiner
This is not a poem today I cannot write poems I can only write sentences The second sentence says that there are sins deadly to oneself and to others The third sentence says that some of these sins do include jealousy anger envy avarice pride because a person if she has spiritual power projects these qualities through her being and her work say writing and is imitated by others because of this power thus perpetuating what are called sins The third sentence which is here the fourth sentence was a long sentence and has to do with the need for work on the self The fifth sentence introduces one of Gandi’s redefinitions of the seven deadly sins which deals with the political or work in the world The sixth sentence says that wealth even with work is no justification for keeping it all whether you work or inherit the obligation is to share until need is erased The seventh sentence quotes Gandi that pleasure without conscience is a sin but any act without conscience or consciousness is a sin and to close I have already committed seven sins seven sentences with meaning which I would prefer to destroy for a writer’s goal of altering consciousness by means of disjunctive non-sequential techniques thus forwarding a consciousness which would eliminate sins however and whomever defined
From Hannah Weiner’s Open House, edited by Patrick Durgin, forthcoming from Nightboat Books in January 2027.
Nice piece of experimental metafiction. Socialist leanings not withstanding, or withstood.