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#brain #language #nature #useless #utility
Published: 2018-06-05 16:41:07 +0000 UTC; Views: 177; Favourites: 9; Downloads: 0
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I was delivered into this headspace,filled with it,
cushion stuffed with cotton between my ears with it;
Mold belly-crawling through a maze,
crept into ridges until twisting
into a brain.
Blueprints speak concisely;
even the bridges that bend and break
were printed on pithy paper
(tensile strength notwithstanding).
Pieces won’t fit together
until they are side-by-side,
the dimensions distinct from
that assignment of utility.
Trees grow without it.
Bees still go to blossoms reliably.
The thermodynamic trial and error
stretching of nature is held aloft,
an assumption of free-wheeling perfection,
a messy yarn that only artists try to map in line and language and
contradictions like
singing a voiceless song.
Once it’s cycled and simplified
it’s a sliding scale recitation
of utility.
So what of this brain of mine?
