In Chap. 3 , we operated a shift from the parasite to the virus metaphor that overturns Austin’s evaluation of poetic utterances and gives them a space within OLP. This shift shows how poetry can provide insights towards a performative philosophy of language and exchange a conservative picture of language for a creative and inventive one. In one of her poems, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick says: ‘Always, I wanted marriage inside out’ (Sedgwick 1993, 34). Insofar as marriage is exemplary of the performativity of language for Austin, I want the performative inside out. To want the performative inside out means to uncover an alternative that lies dormant behind the normative performative that excludes, silences, oppresses those who do not conform, to activate a virus to create an alternative space. We have seen how connecting the poetic to perlocution offers an alternative to Austin’s conception of language, and it remains to be seen how this alternative affects literary theory.