We Harm Ourselves
By DoctorAsh
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This isn't me,
well,
it is, but not,
for in this story, you must live between existence,
not in you, and not in me,
but in us.
In our gravitational
minds, let us travel,
far from here, to near the ends of human rationalization,
where glasses clink together,
as rivers of human voices flow,
in and out, of each-other,
like sex.
Here, some people
stand and lean, while others sit,
slouched, while smiling, and nodding
to their friends,
flicking a cigarette maybe, while mumbling,
as the sun pokes down with transparency,
through the branches of
leafless mahoganies,
in a world that is so simple,
that it cannot
exist but in complete perfect-oddity,
without a flux of mind, so
softly is a smile, ripe.
Yet, through all of the brass hats
and hair,
a young man sits, in the back
with a stale stare,
as we pass, all of his friends but him, share a laugh.
In
this thought of a world,
or in this mess of a thought,
the heavy
smoke of the perfect speech around him lifts,
beyond the barriers
of his care, his long face, extends nowhere.
Perhaps we are
all, just one oddly numbered consciousness,
who lives through billions
of minds,
through one large multi-dimensional eye,
or perhaps
we are all
just a collective of electron movements,
who pass
signals through one another
to create one ultimate social thought.
Either way, we all live in a world that has and will,
exist
long before and after us.
And in this moment, that is propped up
by our mere awareness of life,
by our ability to create this one
moment,
that extends throughout our entire lives,
and throughout
our ancestor's and into our decedent's minds,
we live as one small
incidental phenomena,
that is expressed by the length of one single
perfect little line,
that we measure,
and we measure again,
and measure,
and we measure again,
and we measure ourselves,
as we measure everything,
until it's unified,
until we are,
unified,
into a stare.
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Comments on "We Harm Ourselves"
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A former member wrote:
Cool poem. Your talent. A true word master.
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On Thursday, August 8, 2013, Six-Out
(1423) wrote:
You always make the mind fly.
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On Monday, February 11, 2013, TropicalSnowstorm
(1580) wrote:
Great piece! I especially love the lines "And in this moment, that is propped up by our mere awareness of life, by our ability to create this one moment, that extends throughout our entire lives". This is my kind of poem! Ciao, T/S
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On Sunday, February 10, 2013, TheProphetUntold
(160) wrote:
Quite an inspired piece here. A substantial weight of thought and asymmetrical beauty. This is a cool drink on a hot day, a moment of clarity in the maelstrom that is our existence. I can really appreciate this work, thanks for sharing it. Measurable quality: 10+...+tpu+
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A former member wrote:
you stroke my brain and tug at my heart like a marstro, a puppeteer. you have created something with a mechanical underlaying, robot panties, and sauron's worldy fire eye. there is dreaming and there is inspiring and prophesizing then there is what you do. hypnotize me with a dose of seeing truth. it is what you have always done, why i always come back wanting more. you peel back the layers of my mind and make me really fucking think the way only a life changing high can... nothing is impossible in your writing, in your music. you whisper as savagely as you scream. thank you, sweet doctor to my soul, my awareness. :)
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A former member wrote:
*maestro - fucking a. please write more often, yeah? the world is a lot easier to embrace when your words are swirling around in their newfound permanence.
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On Tuesday, February 5, 2013, Ravenblade
(307) wrote:
This was powerful. I am glad to see you're writing again. Its been so long. I can't find the appropriate words to describe the feelings this evoked.
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A former member wrote:
When I saw you had posted, my first instinct was to masturbate. I'm seriously just over the moon right now. I'll be back to leave something coherent. You've just made my day, month, YEAR.