If the poetry manifestos are no longer in use
The poems are the manifestos put to use
(Azarm)

An error message for reading?

Forget all your complaints.
You want to say I can handle it.
Want to put across this
So that by being a mountebank, you can make a name for yourself
Or raise your voice high
So no one's hand can get a hold of it and
Put me in my place.
Someone has chopped your head off, you fancy.
This is the real issue. 

Before reading, please make the following changes.

                           incorrect                                                          correct

Title: An error message for reading? ————> An unerring message for reading!

Line 1: Forget ————> See if I care!
Line 1: all your ————> Resume all your
Line 1: complaints. ————> complaining.
Line 2: You want to say ————> Say what you want
Line 2: I can ————> you can't
Line 2: handle it. ————> handle me.
Line 3: Want to ————> You want to
Line 3: put across ————> put out
Line 3: this ————> this idea
Line 4: So that ————> That
Line 4: by being a mountebank, you can make ————> you keep amounting to a mouthful
Line 4: a name for yourself ————> of a famous name
Line 5: Or raise ————> Rise above
Line 5: your ————> your
Line 5: voice ————> the sound,
Line 5: high ————> even higher
Line 6: So no one's hand ————> So with a sleight of hand
Line 6: can get a hold of ————> you can get rid of
Line 6: it and ————> everyone and
Line 7: Put ————> Bring
Line 7: me in ————> shame upon
Line 7: my place. ————> the earth!
Line 8: Someone has ————> I will
Line 8: chopped ————> cut off
Line 8: your head off ————> your head,
Line 8: you fancy. ————> you'll see!
Line 9: This is ————> This is not
Line 9: the real issue. ————> even the real issue.

Line 12: An unerring message for reading! ————> A message for erroneous reading.

Line 13 & 14: See if I care! Resume all your ————> Start this
Line 15: complaining. ————> conversing all over.
Line 16: Say what you want ————> Don't say
Line 17: you can't ————> it doesn't
Line 18: handle me. ————> have to do with me.
Line 19: You want to ————> Don't you want to
Line 20: put out ————> put aside
Line 21: this idea ————> this part of the idea
Line 22, 23: That you keep amounting to a mouthful ————> So that you mouth opens in proportion to
Line 24: of a famous name ————> the names
Line 25: Rise above ————> Rise up
Line 27 & 28: the sound, even higher ————> without a sound
Line 29: So with a sleight of hand ————> Until all those whose hands
Line 30 & 31: you can get rid of everyone and ————> are revealed, everyone
Line 32 & 33: Bring shame ————> Vanishes
Line 34: upon the earth! ————> from the face of the earth!
Line 35: I will ————> They understand
Line 36: cut off ————> a slap
Line 37: your head ————> upside the head!
Line 38: you'll see ————> Did you see!
Line 39: This is not ————> The newness of this
Line 40: even the real issue. ————> issue isn't real.

Line 41: A message for erroneous reading. ————> Errata for reading.

Line 14: all your ————> You
Line 13: See if I care! ————> care to be understood!
Line 42: Start this ————> Start this
Line 43: conversing all over. ————> Start all over!
Line 44: Don't say ————> What do I care! Don't say if
Line 45 & 46: it doesn't have to do with me. ————> it doesn't come up.
Line 47 & 48: Don't you want to put aside ————> Put down
Line 49: this part of the idea ————> this idea and go to sleep.
Line 50 & 51: So that your mouth opens in proportion to the names. ————> Don't mount a disproportionate shouting match against the names.
Line 52 & 53: Rise up without a sound ————> Rise up soundly.
Line 54: Until from those whose hands ————> Don't try to get the upper hand
Line 56: are revealed, everyone ————>  over everyone.
Line 57: Vanishes ————> You'll vanish
Line 58: from the face of the earth! ————> off the face of the earth!
Line 59 & 60: They understand a slap ————> You'll be slapped
Line 61 & 62: upside the head! Did you see! ————> if you don't get this through your head!
Line 63: The newness of this issue ————> This issue
Line 64: isn't real. ————> is really not new!

Line 11: incorrect ————> correct
For every line: ————>     ————>    <————>

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Mohammad Azarm's poem "E" explores the process of revision, as sentences go through three cycles of edits, reworkings, and alterations. It plays with the relationships between the text and its marginalia, addenda, and errata, as well as the notion of what can be corrected or improved. Reproducing a process that repeatedly transforms various parts of the sentence proved challenging in translation. The three "revised" versions of the text are hidden within the poem's form.