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“𝗮 𝘀𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗶𝘀: 𝗰𝗶𝗿𝗰𝗮 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵”
the subject sat - a node in the domestic sphere
performing 'nothingness' with practiced inertia
vague intention: interactive fiction?
distraction-as-ritual?
homework: a non-event, existing around its absence

in the mouth
a consumer artifact, rope-like
chromatic excess masquerading as nourishment
flavor: marginally sweet
mouthfeel: synthetic
satisfaction: compulsively textural
the whole thing: consumed
a private liturgy of processed sensation

“𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲𝘁: 𝗰𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆”
pressure. not metaphor
not metaphor. not exactly physical
a density of awareness
residing in the center - deep
unscheduled gravity
inner architecture reconfigures its own mass.

can the neuroplastic brain digest artifice?
can the young one who ingested petroleum polymers trust thought itself?

motion: a descent
destination: television as secular confessional
parentless domicile occasional
Illumination flickering across retinas
what?

escalate sensation
whisper tiding unreality
pressing toward cortical rupture

“𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗰𝗵, 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗰𝗵, 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝗻-𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳”
laps around the dwelling cube
each motion: surveilled
each breath: a test variable
self as subject
world as backdrop
the simulation hypothesis becomes
an emotional inevitability
not thought - just overwhelming certainty
that thought
has been suspended

outside:
bare skin forgets temperature

inside:
pressure climbs the spine like static

sound:
tinnitus, high-frequency existentialism

vision:
pinched - tightened
zoomed in on… what?

“𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗮 𝘀𝗺𝘂𝗱𝗴𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗲𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗮𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀”
is this not real?
not a question
an event
no syntax - just rupture

think: *déjà vu*
though reversed, inverted, decontextualized
time doesn’t loop - it bloats
moment is hyperbolic

attempt forecast
divination by premonition
if this already occurred, what comes next?
misfired insight becomes dread
dread becomes
intermittent waves of simulated texture
an interfacial warning
we are not receiving signal