Thursday, May 5, 2022

Emotions/Experience Seem to be The Continuum

 

the frame is important. the dice are tumbling. we hope for an urgent seven. so poignant inside, trying to mitigate the anguish, rain has gone viral. Love will dance, take to affection, laughing like stirring winds; so addicted to a concept, so indoctrinated, afraid to assert against its existence—the ink of the sun, the option to resist, the terror many movies stir up. the clock is leaking, the skies are watching, the pavement and bushes bear witness. like releasing an album, so sensuous the sinew, the city with goosebumps; if but to feel perfect, something inside, depending upon intake and innocence. the flight of the feral—the moon to the wolves—the sheep to the coyotes; so effaced it seems, so erased in private, the first question, becomes the final leap. adrift at spaces, so refigured, to watch, listen, and see.

 

anything perspiring, anything with breath, it becomes an adventure: to have penalty in our loins; to surrender as if; if more than name and its security. nothing more than love, or apathy, cultures priding over anti-emotions; how to escape from feelings—it becomes deep training—officials might call it an aberration. many are in essence—the fields of slaughter—with passion seeming possible, notwithstanding, a lack of emotion—it becomes a paradox … we must first define passion—as mere intensity, either present or absent of love. if passion is intensity, are emotions required to have intensity? if so, we have a contradiction, and we have an escape from self, where it’s impossible.   

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