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Phainesthai

What otherworldly innocence
could fecundate the thoughts
of the mind in the cloud,

So tethered to this world
by a wrapping of tangled
fiber optic wires, humming

The interchangeable vibrations
of sight and sensation as they
blink out into the vanishing gray?

What aphoristic brevity
could challenge the wit
and diminish maieutic

Impulses, withering them
in the unconscious acts of
ever-steady electronic meditation?

What eyes could taste
the cyanide apple before them
and crunch its tender, metallic

Skin, causing the dehiscence
of doxastic currents to subside
to the amplified, yet numbing, tongue?

What vision would saccade
itself, twitching to embed
the cross-pollinated images

Of the undiscerning pupil?
What hegemony of reference
would breed the germs to fester

An ecosystem of interruption—
of an ambrosial distraction—
eschewed forever in the jumble

Of sweet autoamputation?
What noumenal space—
of abstract lacunarity—

could sever our place

as a conduit for—
as an isopraxism
to mirror—
such Dasein,

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