BENTHIC RAVERS
Sargent's Daughters, New York
Whenever I heard:
save space by optimizing storage
I thought:
a new syndrome for guest users
a trial and error
a philosopher’s fantasy
Those are the kinder kind of lies we used to
emulate to self-medicate with anhydrous
simulacra
But like all the other tetrachromate dissociators
who comply to digest
I fell for the sonic hues that again and again
are only begging for our rot
I zoned out and found myself staring at something
that had emerged to burrow:
Feel better, fail better
Better to rejoice in illusory descent
then to disambiguate with vitalist excrescences
There's no need to beware of the ninth wave
Befriend your Cambrian trauma,
your Devonian shutdown
There's a secret code for it
A mere ritual of planetary orchestration
which resists even the most honest gaze
What counts for passing?
I wonder
I dreamt of a kiss embedded in the concrete
And then, a sea of Petric saliva
Soon, hear the nacreous jaw, crawling through,
sleeping not
Fake it 'til you'll never make it in time
I overheard
They’re in their abyssal era without a clue
A lazy formulation
a node to alkaline nostalgia
a Freudian dead zone
Take it off, all of it
Aqueous slippage like a pocket of bliss
CO2 + H2O -> (H+) + (HCO3-)
Your disk is almost full
Flickering: shut, open, shut, open, open, open, shut
When will the eyes crystallize too?
We did what we were told and we put our shells on acid
A tender plot of ruination murmured in a sinusoid footnote
Aragonite and proteins, queering
too busy unbeing dead
shapeshifting manically on the bathyal dancefloor
As we approach the dysphotic zone
abrasive echolalia is my favourite response
Dissolve, dissolve, dissolve, dissolve
All there is left to do
is lay low and love
amidst the raving benthos