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Pencils manufactured at H. D. Thoreau’s  father’s pencil factory: from what  was made he made more and less in a wood called Walden.
Is that Borges or am I, and how is it everyone around me blurs  while I, singular, and he apart are stilled?
I imagine no less a disaster when I’m writing than being covered  in a web of bones, a link here tapped across my knuckles, a window opening  on the screen looking out over nothings.
The multiples of my face collected and published.
Collections of things like errata,  the leading between lines having fallen off the press like tombstones.
Everyone has a swimming pool inside them, but we don’t like to show them to other people.
Even a frying pan means something: this one means a death in the family sometime in the next 3 months.
I am the sum of my sources; I am my connectome.
Pictures we post memorialize ephemera, make monuments of the plastic , cauterize the grand narratives that whisper in our ears that we aren’t doing it right.

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Distance

  • 2. Pencils manufactured at H. D. Thoreau’s father’s pencil factory: from what was made he made more and less in a wood called Walden.
  • 3. Is that Borges or am I, and how is it everyone around me blurs while I, singular, and he apart are stilled?
  • 4. I imagine no less a disaster when I’m writing than being covered in a web of bones, a link here tapped across my knuckles, a window opening on the screen looking out over nothings.
  • 5. The multiples of my face collected and published.
  • 6. Collections of things like errata, the leading between lines having fallen off the press like tombstones.
  • 7. Everyone has a swimming pool inside them, but we don’t like to show them to other people.
  • 8. Even a frying pan means something: this one means a death in the family sometime in the next 3 months.
  • 9. I am the sum of my sources; I am my connectome.
  • 10. Pictures we post memorialize ephemera, make monuments of the plastic , cauterize the grand narratives that whisper in our ears that we aren’t doing it right.