Tuesday, July 25, 2023

PARLOR TRICK

Here's how I want you to think 
of things now: 

your job is
to fold and tear 

all your old 
strategies for coping 

along their suddenly-
obvious perforations.

You'll notice 
in doing so

that beliefs, feelings 
and sympathies 

are no longer things 
but processes; that is 

to say: modular affectations.
For instance, 

even your nascent-
ly blooming intention 

to follow these 
directions 

was much less 
a thought 

than a 
realization.