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we accidentally imagine
by andrew yoon
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we accidentally imagine
by andrew yoon
seed 1998256
it is 2026. we wonder what to say next,
and the wind is still blowing.
the smell of damp sticks
from outside. a slowmoving
sound. we notice how
everything is so pink maybe we
remember why, but for now we
don't. “can it stay like this
for a while?” and, for once,
it does.
systems all around us
and our lives fracturing
breaking apart piece by piece as
we keep trying to glue
things back together with
words and theories and poems
and cathedrals
architectures in the mind and and later
in concrete, we begin to
feel jittery as we realize we
haven't stood up in hours, this
chair and its arms a little too
narrow, pressing against the
sides of our skulls, plurals
and singulars not having so
much significance to us now
when the lights are
flickering so subtly. we pray but
don't know who we are praying
to who we are praying for,
what we want, what we should
want. fading. fading.
the one and that seems as
as now we go looking for our
least looking for our
instincts but now looking left for
circumstances responses, are are
smiling and we don't know why
first we don't know why us us
smiled first? these social a of
across across a they thought
the joke it so car car in this
jam, behind the traffic jam
behind the note in every note
this this car car, a
different struggle struggle
behind every in the piano.
maybe if isn't . maybe there
was more time. but the sky
seeming like time. but isn't
isn't. the there was more time
. but there.. emails keep
arriving and keep arriving and
none ceiling. emails them
ever seem ,,, possibilities
fanning tree to weigh. we end and
end up just going with and
that seems one we saw first
now at go we left. all,
different. we because one first
group of first amplifying
across a thought the joke was
,, and underthere, the a
beforemaroon , the eyes questions how
a color when these things
all moving so slowly the
clock seems to be be usual with
and counterpoint. suggest
and agains the wayingsong a
the eyelids, the eyelids,
behind the ideas how to under
how to see a color when are
stuck these inside it these
things all moving slowly be
working usual and little
fingers and woodenbits we a. and
tangling wires into
these bizarre shapes, rugs
with strange colors and
melodies waitingly, taking deep
breaths before the speech where
we finally speak our
minds: "won't everybody
please, please stop this
cruelty? can't we see how
unnecessary it is?" some glass
window creaking under winds,
some oil spilled in a parking
lot. how again the why's and
who's before and after or some
some behind throughingly, a
manual for writers of research
papers about electrical
engineering and game theory,
complex analysis and early
marxist painting; the
walls of this place have
shoulders that are
sagging, somewhere in these
pages an actual answer to a
question that matters. a new pair
of jeans, a holiday
decoration left up for months, a
lightbulb which doesn't fit even
though we could have sworn the
size was right at the store.
color combinations making us
feel sick and wonder why we
care about the dissonance,
why we should prefer one to
the other. we conclude that
we're all just bits of air
moving with the waves of some
song we can't hear: now
banging on the wooddrums, the
thoughts and the doubts, hopes or
imaginations throwing fists at the
organ keyboard, some body of
loud waters, some
electrical structure groaning in
rains particles trapped in
the breezings, the sine
waves, the eyeballs thrown
left and right or up and down
or is that a sign of
happiness, of
peacefulness? who's to tell what's
harmony and what's dissonance?
who's to tell the words of the
song when each moment's just
a few bits of data? hard to
see the picture from a
pixel, hard to find the poem
through a word a letter an inkdot
the arounds and behinds
lost somewhere in the mix,
the breath being exhaled
before we even noticed it was
inside our bodies, each note
rising just a little higher or
just a little more like dirty
wallpaper: we ask each other where
it happened. where the
music got faster. where the
blue became green, where the
light was switched on and the
newer waves began to
interfere with things and distort
the shapes, canceling out
or multiplying or
performing more complicated
operations until the noise is noise
and the signal is noise and
the noise is still noise yet
somehow wider, more sideways
and spinningly and
uppingly and backwardly, more
harsh and out of sync, now neon
colorlines and batteries, strange
gaps in the spiral not
patterns but something about
them which makes us feel the
walls are moving further away
and the room is becoming
smaller, that one moment is
another and the second hand is
somehow different this time
around. we cannot help but go to
sleep again, this time with a
strange smile and already
looking forward to coffee. this
time with socks and a thicker
blanket. this time with the
windows open: and in comes the
cooler air.
minutes and wonder now:
"is we wonder if nobody
noticed and we watch the air just
sort of move around through
the leaves. we move around
through through the leaves...
we take around through the
leaves. we the again close our
eyes circles of stops and
continues continues continues
the now nowing while again
and stops . circles circles
of of stops and and again
the time continues and and
nowing throughs and arounds
sunlight now and arounds and
nowing while again the time and
continues again the the time
continues continues and stops
stops . circles of ink stops
and continues again.
circles wait for a few minutes
and wonder if : "is "is for
now: :: "is "is this ask now
air if nobody noticed we
with the warmer the sunlight
. throughs time time the
now continues continues
continues again. circles of ink
quietingly, the
softmurmurs not trying to say
anything in particular or
convince anyone of anything,
prefering to let things just exist
the way they are and stay the
same when they need to stay
the same and change when
they need to change, or not
even need to stay the same or
need to change but maybe
instead want to stay the same or
want to change, or rather: it
just happens. it just
happens, and it keeps just
happening. the softmurmers not
even speaking about what's
going on or what's not going on
but instead just
mentioning about whatever is on
their mind at that moment,
letting it out and letting it go,
the sound waves not
disappearing but echoing off a
thousand surfaces and every
blade of grass, split and
muffled and distorted and
echoed until they sound like
dead trees, the sun pushing
the waves around a little
through the screen door, gnats
in the air just sort of
moving around.
to sometimes things
they are, and sometimes one
to the other without even
trying. and trying. and
sometimes it it the other without
even not we from one to the
other without even trying.
and not and are, they the
other trying., and sometimes
it happens that to the
other without even okay, and
happens happens happens are,
and even trying things, and
sometimes it happens the other
even trying . sometimes are,
and sometimes it we one to
and sometimes. and, they
are, and without. and
sometimes things and sometimes
things are not and that we
is still glowing and in
we and we to ask questions.
sun starts coming right cue
colors lines and lines so many.
we remember stick stick
that the incense is still
somehow smoke and and we breathe
forget forget to questions.
laughing how we can't starts cue
shades of these whose cue can't
lines remember that somehow
still glowing and somehow
becoming smoke our becoming
stick remember that the stick
somehow becoming smoke in and.
we ask questions.! it help
how cue colors lines lines
and we remember the of
incense glowing and stick stick
lines remember still and
somehow
silence and quiet now. a
small voice humming and
laughing in the other room. a
crystal or some melting snow.
behinds toward while again
around where's or why's while
leftandright shrinking silently. a
wooden creak. a scratch. all
centers things happening all
around, things just happening
and just being the way they
are. and we realize that this
is a beautiful thing. that
this is a beautiful thing.
how did we get here? the
questions which keep making their
way inside our mouths as if
we never could learn from
the last time we couldn't
answer and instead only become
more unhappy and began to
throw things at the walls with
some inexpressible anger
screaming and shouting with a red
face and bulging veins,
fists again and again against
the door not even caring
what's on the other side, too
caught up with the idea of the
door being there in the first
place another why and another
if causing the lights to
flicker and the stove to begin to
smell like something is
burning so we all try to remember
what we had done in the
kitchen last but we can't
remember, and even the attempts to
remember make us shout with fewer
words, make us scream with our
fingers and pound harder and
harder on the door while the
wood is splintering here and
there and the doorframe
appears to budge this time or
that time or this time again
and again and again
up behind the
geometries geometries and always
seem to the way way we we
expected but be but maybe going
the way. or intended, could
into spray, all these colors
. watch with a permeating
all and things up behind
each and relationships
which always seem to the way we
the point.. ideas these
permeating. it trangles trangles
into other sort the sort
other the buttons seem., but
maybe that point again. ideas
and interactions. spray
paints paints and concrete,
all spray paints
permeating while a smile squares
and making themselves
other and always
it's hard to speak
sometimes. we are frustrated with
ourselves for our
inconsistencies once at peace and
allowing things to be just the way
they are and want to be,
always taking action and never
taking action,
leftandrighting with the leftandright
once again wishing things
were a different way or that
the coin had landed on the
other face; we can't figure
out who we are, and we aren't
quite sure if that question
leads anywhere hard to find
the energy to say anything,
too many responses waiting
behind each option which never
seem to go anywhere
positive, anywhere that doesn't
hurt anybody or dissipate
into the grass as if nothing
had happened in the first
place and we begin to wonder if
anything actually did or does
happen or if we had somehow just
thought it all up out of some kind
of desperation and
confusion aimed at nothing in
particular, cycles going back and
forth but never quite the same
way, always surprising
somehow and adding to the
confusion and lack of any sense of
place, the feeling that we are
nowhere and the feeling that we
are getting nowhere.
conversation our best
we aren't accurate, a
fewer mistakes on with
becoming heated while we do our
best outside becoming with.
the becoming we becoming
heated while becoming heated
outside conversation going.
little a little more a little,
faster and mistakes. accurate
. going and with fewer the
conversation going on with fewer
mistakes on outside pretend we
aren't listening we aren't
listening. little more accurate,
a little faster and
outside do while to pretend we
best to pretend every a we
while outside becoming
heated while our best to
pretend we to pretend heated
while we do our on faster and
with accurate little
mistakes. accurate little
faster, the on heated best we
aren't getting a little more we
aren't listening our pretend
we becoming going the on
outside becoming. the
conversation and with becoming on
outside mistakes. the on
outside going on heated while we
do our aren't listening we
repetition faster and with
conversation and with fewer mistakes
while we do our best we do our
best to heated while our best
to pretend while we do our
pretend heated aren't
listening. every repetition
getting a aren't listening
pretend we we best to pretend we
aren't listening a with. the
mistakes. outside becoming
heated while to a repetition
getting a little repetition
getting more a little a little
getting a little more accurate
every repetition getting
more a accurate, listening
our best to aren't
listening. best to pretend little
repetition getting and with.
outside pretend every
repetition listening. every
little faster on outside
becoming heated while outside
becoming heated on with fewer and
little a accurate and the
conversation outside becoming
mistakes. the conversation
going on heated while to
aren't pretend listening .
every repetition pretend our
best to pretend every
repetition getting a little
repetition accurate, a little
mistakes. the conversation
going while we do our best do
every repetition getting
pretend listening we more
accurate. accurate. we do going.
a conversation going on
outside becoming with
conversation mistakes on we do our
best to our on the on outside
becoming our pretend we aren't
listening. we aren't getting we
aren't listening. every
repetition getting a little more
mistakes. outside becoming
heated while mistakes. little
going on outside becoming we
do we aren't every
repetition. every repetition
we are breathing. and we
are still breathing. one
thought and another passing by
in the street while we ask
ourselves if this is going
anywhere if we should instead be
focusing on something else like
the way the smoke is
drifting away from the incense
stick, or the sound our eyelids
make when we blink. is there a
place for rushing anymore?
the softmurmurs again,
reminding us about our breath: and
a little blue bird lands
on the windowsill. it is
singing.
and all at once things
are so quiet, a tiny hiss
from the walls, distant
clanging of a ventilation fan. we
breathe with the sunlight,
passing clouds causing these
little pulses in the sunglow
and somehow we feel it in our
toes even though we can't
quite tell why the wind
chooses the pitches it sings
against the window, why one
harmony should point to
another, why every story has some
sort of climax where
elements and trajectories
culminate into some bigger thing
as if we had been heading
there all along as if there
were some kind of purpose
behind the penscratches or
where this leaf decides to
fall in this rotting pile we
notice a pain in our lower back
from bad posture and some
strange sense of pressure from
the bottom of our right foot
now the ventilation fan
slowing down into a periodic
banging; we notice a coin lying on
the ground but we can't make
out which side it landed on.
do we care? is it good to
care? would it matter if we
knew? we are staring at the
coin and the coin is staring
back.
and just like that, the
page turns for us. the next
series of random numbers fill
the screen and we begin to
imagine dots and we begin to
connect them and agree and
disagree with them, relate to
them and question them and
share them. the page glares.
we glare. everybody is
glaring and nobody is laughing
and then one of us starts
laughing, and another one of us
starts laughing, and we are all
laughing and the paper is
laughing and the inkdots are
laughing: the numbers are
laughing too.
marbles in a glass bowl,
not going anywhere in
particular seeming to wonder where
the birds get their
melodies, their strange rhythms
tinkling or rubbing cardboard.
the dark bottle looking
right back, eyes glimmering
so loudly with the
sunlight or fluorescent
flickerings or uncharged
batteries. the lithium looking for
water. how's this different?
asking between colorshades
and subject matter like it
were important or something
or something or something
or anothersong
thismomentingly or an old box of cereal,
casting shadows longer than
expected somehow while the light
reflects in its own color onto the
walls and the nearby desk
surface, papers scattered from
months before piled over each
other, some important some not
so much, some with colors
and blindly drawn
paintings and some printed out
from an old black and white
laser jet printer, whatever
that means, whatever those
meaning.
the corner of the room
empty except for the little
grooves in the floorboard, we
smile. the moments going and
going in such a beautiful way
that we can't take our eyes
off it, noticing just how
inconsistent things are, how blurry
and arbitrary the
differences seem between things and
people and ideas, how musical a
painting can sound the ink never
seems to dry.
our, foreheads that it
might. feel hands sensation
in our in the floorboard
floorboard the wooden on face lot
about, knot lot each someone
purpose of someone someone
somehow. we close floating
floating our, somehow, that it
might be warm enough outside
outside to open . we open. dents
the floorboard small
ourselves and scrape scrape paint
walls walls every freckle of ,
the if these things just on
on things just somehow. we
own of on their moment and
for we eyes for floating and
our to we windows we breathe
and windows now. we breathe
this notice ask came from
each came from what caused
scrape scrape freckle and face
of , how
up when look the. know
our place we don't see look
up they don't see us
quietly understood that
sometimes it's okay not, that
ourselves. really they, and and
that shadow is. us notice how
strange our looks to smear lead
with our hand to the smudges
the smudges might misread
or note think of something
but maybe or execution
would be we moment , and
relevancy for it go. we close eyes
it go . go moment, and let it
go. we close and wind and
sun the sun we from this just
we wonder for it if it would
laughter conversation
destination as they explain to
learned about the place how they
learned about the so many
different types of hats. back
forth without collapse and
fade eventually, what what
where the patterns in of
leaves something there
decided or or that these come up
when we at sitting they don't
say or they away quietly
understood that sometimes it's
okay to just not know, walk
another happens doesn't matter
, and glance and wonder
it's is us, and that shadow of
us of us. around into when
the wind moves shapes. we it
moves. we try and lead with
smear the smear to smear lead
sticks to the paper so and
remains perfectly that
we wonder what would
make us happy, what would
make this headache go away
which keeps distracting us
from everything going on the
scratching pens and observations,
a quote out of context we
leave the incense burning
when we go to sleep even
though we know it's a fire
hazard and it puts our lives in
danger and the lives of all the
other people living above and
below us, and all of the people
we know and the people who
care about what happens to us
even though we never asked
them to. we wonder why it
should matter that something
happens to anyone, we wonder why
we care. and everything is
so quiet.
. recognize. we voices
these chests not. more okay.
quiet every time we lean our
ears closer the sounds. our
not this fuzzy this making
notice to notice. the sun fuzzy
kind of sound pause and just
second hand and these again
angles crackling, crackling ,
we breathe for the call we
don't.. a don't the laughing
somehow somehow the sort and we
we hear these chests
chests and chests and making us
feel not warmer and but more .
more okay more we inside
notice . the sun of against the.
we pause and just breathe
for a again while ticking by
again again while all these
angles that sound and we
seasonal allergies a bird call we
don't. recognize . at help
can't help laughing and
somehow sound of people
laughing and we hear all the
windchimes and windchimes and we
but okay . not chests not
warmer but more okay
combination making one thing one
vibrations more? time we lean the
sounds. we are aware notice.
the this the by again and
crackling all and again again all
these angles for a while sun
keeps making sound and can't
help this our but more okay
more quiet ears trying we
closer trying to inside the
sounds trying trying to sounds
the sun the sun sun not to
notice try try not sun and and
just breathe for again again
again the hand again , , we
while longer and longer
seasonal seasonal allergies.
bird we can't we can't the
windchimes and these acoustic
vibrations buzzing our our chests
chests and and vibrations
buzzing making and making us
feel us us more us not warmer
but making our inside our
chests and chests and us but
more okay and another quiet
every time we lean our ears
ears closer actions but try
our actions to notice. the
this fuzzy we pause we second
breathe for a while making
sniffling a . sound of people
laughing and harmony against the
windchimes and we buzzing inside
more more okay. okay . which
slantingway another not another
vibrations quiet every?? hear hear
inside to notice. the this
fuzzy fuzzy kind of sound
where a while . where where
again while. just while the
all sun sound and we keep
call call we don't at sound of
people laughing
for what what is, how
tones staring us transformed
into some kind of kinetic
energy which dust and how
wonder if in out a, clinging to
glue, the the and keep not
going we can't the sun is paper
glowing moment we know if not
care. and that's caring that
happy or laughing on blood is
the music just going, the
wind keeps pushing trees bit
, smiling able to what, in
into some kind of kinetic of
dust wonder resonant, turn
we wonder end to be without
a these bricks some rock
another the opinions screams
fists and and ticking and
pretending not notice around on
muffled voices from help moment
all us landing on this piece
of paper and how and we on
our think don't know if or
but somehow we don't
because caring us more our and,
wind we keep we everything
around us is is, the moves us,
being pushes of wood, quickly
and in the end it will all out
without a a last sentence. these
another opinions and same
bucket smiles the hugs the we
keep doing our best notice
from the all us, how this the
whole and we can on at somehow
we care never have made
laughing on our blood is keeps
pushing trees and and around us
for what every around. us in
turning away being of bits
squirrels cars turn their wheels
in the turn to be part
without a punchline another
with some another the into
and the timer keeps our to
notice on themselves and we
help every us the whole on our
skin and moment at if
we accidentally
imagine ourselves as having for
a head this strangely
shaped box or a bird feeder with
a triangular roof or
something similar and we are
sitting in the front passenger
seat of an old car and someone
we care a lot about asks,
who are you? and we
think for a minute, and then
another. we aren't able to answer
with anything except a held
hand, and we somehow find
ourselves caring more about them
just because they asked.
they can't answer either,
and the grip gets tighter
and they aren't making eye
contact but that's okay because
we aren't looking anyway
and we are both these
strange wooden boxes attached
to bodies, heads without
eyes which still say so much,
eyes without laughinglines
which always find new things
to smile about an itch
behind our ears, the way this
piece of paper falls on the
ground, the sound of an overhead
lamp switching on laughing
about nothing in particular
and everything in
particular, wanting to want
everything and wanting to want
nothing, to feel everything and
to feel nothing, or at
least something the grip
getting tighter and we remember
how okay it is, how
beautiful it is and how funny it is
that poetry and music might
be the same thing after
all, that hiding is okay
sometimes and being naked is okay
too, that sometimes things
lead to other things, and
sometimes they don't, and
sometimes things just happen and
they keep just happening and
they don't stop. they don't
stop and it seems like they
never will, so it starts
making sense to just accept
this and close our eyes and
smile a little but somehow
this feels impossible. we
get frustrated and start to
do things we don't want to
do, blaming other people
for things nobody had
control over in the first place
and jumping to conclusions
and making assumptions
about other people and their
intentions and what they want or
what they are afraid of. we
forget that they are us, that
their grip is getting tighter
and that nothing is okay for
them either. we remember
that their boxy head is
crying and we have been trying
not to notice. we remember
that we are all the same
person born into different
bodies, and that this is a
beautiful thing. this is a
beautiful thing. this is a
beautiful thing.
we ask ourselves some
question we can't hear, muffled
because our heads are
underwater, this cold sensation
pressing on our foreheads while
we feel our socks becoming
heavy, cottonfibers grabbing
skin and dragging behind our
feet, cold passing between
our toes. maroon painted
walls and a thick sweater,
crinkling plastic bag full of
snacks. we notice it is becoming
later every moment, and that
as soon as we count one
number there is another in
front of that, always room for
another one or zero or eighty
seven or pencilcase
dirtyshoe, these power outlets
rusting over even though we
can't see where the water
could have come from fading in
the carpet telling which
way people walk most
without asking why they walk it
so often when it seems
there are so, so many other
ways to go and that this way
isn't even the easiest or most
efficient or beautiful or
surprising: they are taking the path
because it is the path they take,
and we can't help but
laughalittle at how beautiful that is
not to say that one is better
than another or that anyone
is wrong for going the way
they do or that we think we are
better than going that
particular way to the couch, but
that we know in the end we are
going to go that way too and
that's just fine. it's just as
good an option as any so we
don't see a reason why not it's
beautiful enough and it's
surprising enough and that itself
may be the most beautiful
and surprising thing of all
at the moment.
we keep asking
questions like “will this make me
happy?” when instead it might be
more interesting to ask what
it would sound like if the
leaves on every tree were poems
written on little sheets of
paper and everybody in the
world began to read them out
loud all at the same time and
then the wind began to blow
and the poems went flying in
the air all around and
everybody just watched it happen
in complete silence we
can't help but smile a little,
and then a lot. and someone
hugs the stranger to their
left and we all begin to
laugh. we ask ourselves
another question we can't hear
because of all the wind and
poems, and that's just fine we
realize we didn't want to know
the answers anyway when
there are so many confusing
and beautiful things all
around us anyway. we just keep
laughing and grabbing poems out
of the air, sometimes
deciding to read them and
othertimes using them as napkins.
the wind, the wind is
laughing too.
reject the if nothing or
ever really changes really
changes and ask ourselves an
unexpected question in. we don't
know.. can't we see why these
questions are these like or second
or second a new much more
important more important like the
moment or bad. and we years or
years or really ask: “who.
know then begin to laugh, cry
. and laugh, and laugh we
it when seems like every a
is so, we think much
question at the moment how we to
read bad handwriting. laugh
and we next anything over
these years
just one by one, going
across lines one a scratchy pen
and going straight just
going with it just with it and
just going just happen a
little and then laugh at how
smile a even think absurd it is
the week what two time sound
like if listen suspect
nobody is ) if they down much
books and start scheduling
and books and about what
might be for breakfast we
breakfast tomorrow why we place of
sense of begin with, just
sense of just going across
lines with lines one by one
with a scratchy next bounces
through our just with it. we
suspect that we can't help but
how absurd a we ever even
think things the happening at
the same time might sound
like if ) were if they were as
they listened we worrying so
and we stop worrying so much
and books thinking
breakfast tomorrow might
breakfast in place of we cross one
thing writing intention to
begin going across lines by
going of without sense of just
going across lines one next
through just with we suspect
that things just happen
somehow and we can't help smile a
how is we days of things
happening at what if ) and if were
trying write. stop ) about what
might one thing out in place
another when writing without
any particular sense to
begin a scratchy and going ear
with it still just going with
it but smile we smile a
little and then is
because the longer we
stare at the details, the less
we are sure they even
matter.
don't have to things
don't that things be left just
is consistency that
consistency is another sort of
illusion and even mean allowing
things which don't make sense
make don't make sense happen
our between our own minds
and our tied or a trashbag
somewhere near bacteria and fungi
the world also means world
ourselves actions our actions is a
is a beautiful thing. this
is a beautiful if okay be
single green speck and
completely, somewhere with a
supposedly doing job playing some
role in this thing we call
society call everyone even
pushed on understand anyone is
or why saying saying or it
or are saying why they and
we we saying something
outside, outside, every
cabinets and why they are why are
they are many ways to write a
to write poem or so many
ways up our everyday seems
when there is sky, a the of
voice toes ears and ears and
toes make up for their
emptiness or that way. the
illusion breaking down again
down that, a
we never seem to notice
the changes until they've
already happened. or at least
they are well into
happening. we wonder why that is:
the clouds evaporating and
the sun coming out, the air
getting so slightly warmer; a
single row of bricks painted a
different color. who the behinds
through before how's and where
when whenever the
againagain the words repeatingly
as we notice a little
cottonfluff drifting toward us. it
sticks to our ink, and we ask
again where meaning comes
from. a million coins being
thrown every instant, fields
of possibility so
terrifyingly wide staring us in the
eye so intensely we have to
look away and we notice this
little bug just flying around,
landing, and flying around
again. flying, landing, and
flying around again.