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Writer's pictureAlexis Greene

hourglass, you figure

hourglass, you figure

04/11/2022


take part in my experiment:

let’s be hourglasses; flipped

upward with intrigue and suspicion.

let’s subvert agency; become suspended


as the very thing we are: time. minds

cannot be controlled. these capitalists

are delusional, attempting to subvert

the inception of ideas; thoughts themselves


as they rush in. you cannot pervade;

interrupt, or intersect a creative thought;

direct, regiment, or ritualize the process

of organically being inspired; polymorphing.


take part in my experiment:

let’s be hourglasses; spilling

sentience over the selves we mourn.

we our born from our pasts; reborn


as we dare to remember experience.

let us not cast out pain’s place in body,

mind, or time, but capture it’s silhouette;

dare to memorialize pain sans projection.


take part in my experiment:

excommunicate yourself from the corporeal

as we ground ourselves as the historical.

it’s radical to become more material


as you distance yourself from convictions,

I know. it can sometimes cost your soul—

separating yourself so audacious-veraciously

from the very idea of knowledge itself.


take part in my experiment:

levitate from the glass menagerie

of creative intent and output;

smash the glass of your self


you commit to as you to attempt to cut

or slice into the glass ceiling. the empathy

will always be capped within individuals

who can only protect their entitlement.


darling, we were meant to give

but not give without first living.

I know it’s easy to forget this.

I’m here to challenge you to live.


darling, we were meant to give

we are meant to be preserved

past the limitations of body and mind;

past philosophical, metaphysical things.


darling, we were meant to give

but not glass we shed as we morphed:

the glass covered in bloods of regret;

misplaced intent. give; do not overextend.


take part in my experiment.

you are mincing a cryptic mosaic

together with glass broken upon metamorphosis.

you cannot reclaim energy it took to elevate


beyond the scope of that naïve body; soul.

you cannot let the world consume

that insatiable hunger; vitriol; curiosity

you cannot quell with unbound unknowns.


take part in my experiment.

you will (never) forsake knowledge itself;

never (un)learn things you wish you didn’t know;

never stop morphing beyond your viewfinder.


darling, you were born to merely sense.

do not erode the experience with questions;

wonders into why you never received

the knowledge-experience you’re accessing now.


darling, you were born to merely see.

do not waste time with perceiving;

you’ll never empathize from all angles.

you are three-dimensional, not geometric.



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