how to hear a sentence

Understand that we do not wish to make you think too hard, because for us to come all this way (and speak up along about these issues despite all the concurrent discussion), and emerge only with a lot more thinking would be culturally doomed. Doom and discussion, we can find anywhere, and we can have anywhere, because it is both pervasive and interior. The mind is a tricky but manageable construct of will and influence and chemicals, but the network at large is a singular fabric, where mythological and physical truths commingle. The spirit of our endeavor, therefore, is mostly relevant in its glaring capitulation to a scientifically obsessed culture where the stated things agree with the stated things. However, we believe that this requires more magic than statements. We do not intend to open up a tendency towards debate, reduction, or sadness. Instead, we wish to provide means with which to consistently control the day with meticulous doses of inspiration and logic.

He always came back for an early dinner and gave me his notebooks to transcribe. They were full of scribbles about survival. He had many unfinished musings on how the word changed in different forms and tenses. Survivor. Survived. Surviving. To survive someone. He described the industrial area where he had spent most of his time. He described days of arduous work in the present tense, the past tense, and the future tense. He wrote a disconcerting number of lines about injury, but it was hard for me to tell if they were literal, or if they were metaphors for living with an illusive yet ubiquitous sense of repression. I, at any rate, preferred to think of them as illustrations of the violence of being undervalued and underpaid. The notes clearly conveyed that he had been intimate with the people he met there; it made sense; his own background could never make him disingenuous. Even though the entries were mostly descriptive, there was an autobiographical heaviness, and I eventually began to decipher the cause: He never expected his life to be so well-defined, his connections so vivid.

Named the vessel discovery just before i woke up as a shameless populist
thinking hierarchy organizes community,
thinking, perhaps what i am avoiding is an unproblematic body,
of duality and divinity; of parallel dialectics.

dropped it on the floor and then put it in my mouth, seeking grail without roads, symbol without map.

if you agree

it is only fantasy

confirming the objective. When we are willing

to imagine, what are we are willing?

pad of paper in a utility belt

The official disappearance was declared on a Tuesday. It was almost dusk, and it had just rained. I remember clearly what he said. He turned to me and he said, but I can still see you. I remember again and again.