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grandiloquent Member
since 1999-07-08
Posts 104Midwest America |
if space is spaceless, void, what keeps matter from inflating it? the gravity that crushes it all together where is it's source? why don't we spill out in its gaping ready mouth unlined, unloosing? what weaves us secure? Our bodies so soft they hemorrhage when bare near moons but what keeps the skin solid? Shouldn't cells squish, stretch, defy all nature, and spread filling all they can fill, like the hungry hands of explorers? And if space is formless, utterly emptied, then should it not be degreeless -- no temperatures, no blinding cold? Or is cold full of independent form? Perhaps in some other dimension space is teeming -- a sea of boundless tides -- the amazing spectrum of the rings in thermometers Then when we breathe, the warm shatters Technicolor, or burns like the psyche And the sound, oh the SOUND of breath could crisscross into somethings not unlike color, not unlike liquid, not unlike knives Out of atmosphere it becomes sound that cannot travel space says it is so and sucks up the reverberations into its black holes and deep nothing wells so what if sound breaks paired with sound -- so that waves would flow in ribbons wherever they choose if no other vibration were there to slice it? The miles might knot together & I could whisper to Australia on the if-day when noise comes collapsing and silence falls deleting no lungs compressing, no teeth grinding, no taxis, no sheep, even the pricks of electricity bout by the mindless patter in some alien brain; the murmurs only the deaf can feel -- all shut out. and in the sudden, the great void of it all, when the ringing swells in their ears & clockwork runs soundlessly, madness strokes them softly, gently . . . Then could a sigh fluttering from my diaphragm shift the eye sockets in China? I could breathe not a word and the world would feel me speak. |
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Balladeer
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-05
Posts 25505Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA |
Not what I would call light reading. A million questions to ponder and make one think. This is a brilliant piece of work. Thank you. |
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