distant worlds
Neocities.
Here's how to make a list:
- First thing
- Second thing
- Third thing
unborn
unbirthed
undead
undying
eternally unbirthing but
that doesnt quite translate
right, it's difficult to find
the proper word for this thing,
an uphill upstream
sisyphean battle
and you know salmon will follow the fields, that
field, beautiful unified dipole, to the figurative non-
ends of the literal Earth
and yes, they're falling to entropy when
the source swallows them whole,
*finally*, stars, do you think
they feel
relief? after clawing limb-
less (not quite, but an approximation is
never out of order) against
gravity, fluid
dynamics sluicing shorn fins
over countless isocontours -- no,
they're perfectly quantifiable --
to the extent that a precise position
necessitates fuzziness around the
momentum, the something like resistance
to inertia
1914, st. petersburg, yakov perelman draws
two misshapen spheres
and they almost look like eyes
and i don't know who yakov perelman was
or anything else about this but i remember
that it was in st. petersburg even though
i didn't put that in the filename
anyways,
of course i know about lowell's channels
about the captivation of these distant worlds
the depth of the angles is lost on me; lost on
endless photocopier artefacts and that
particular neat grid with the faintest spaces
between, dot matrices, maybe?
i'll admit i'm not sure, but in any case it recalls
the nostalgia of old science fiction for certain
and the white specks on the background --
data loss, probably, visual static --
reminiscent of space through a camera lens
so in this way art imitates life
though i can't see much else but a towering wireframe
in this, piercing the underbelly of negligible atmosphere
i'm not sure if they knew about that in 1914.
also re: prev poem, i know this is supposed to be showing the channels on the surface of mars, at least im p sure it is, but i rly cannot see anything other than a polyhedron esque megastructure when looking at it. the patho brainrot is . so severe