Braaiting

breath-based writing
for our age of
peripatetic 
plentitude

a pause
is marked 
not by a comma 
but a line break

a breath is marked 
not by a period 
but by a 
paragraph break 

and you’re free to 
go from there 
(and u can still use traditional 
punctuation marks
to spice any and all of 
the meaty breathing words 
you put on ur braai) 

just write how you breathe

traditional punctuation is dead
it’s built for scarcity—
scrolls
paper
limited space

but now:
INF
IN
I
T
E 

S
P
A
C
E
E
E
E

so why do we write
like we don’t?

Braaiting hears rhythm
your breathing voice
your vernacular eloquence
not rules

a firepit for grilled marks
not a grammar precinct

born of:
transcription ease
walk-and-talk vids
McLuhan’s ghost
my Swedish wife’s comma splice
a Karoo braai
and the truth that

AI will applAI rules
better than we ever will
but we still breathe
we still think
better than they can

break the line
when you pause
break the paragraph
when you breathe

make your mark
with/in/by 
Braaiting

Love the concept of Braaiting! Embracing the fluidity of language and expression in a world of infinite space. Breaking free from traditional punctuation to capture the essence of how we truly communicate. It's all about rhythm, breath, and personal flair. Let's grill those words and savor the flavor of authenticity. 🔥📝

thank you for your kind words!
i’ve spent so long searching 
for an authentic 
metaform 

for a new form of 
authentic expression 
in infinite space 

a word to anchor the masquerade
of “first principles thinking”
or even husserl’s phenomenology 
"to the things themselves" 
(zu den Sachen selbst)

and
(when i wasn’t lost in poetry 
ee cummings def got it) i tended
to end up hovering 
around some form incineration 
and injestion 
and then grilling 
a metaform i kept to myself 
(attaching my previous 
rightly private musings
re grilled letters) 
until i heard the word 

Braai 

which sounded 
so big and brash 
and breathy and 
much tastier than 
archi-écriture

Braaiting