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Antipodal Existence
08:30
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Antipodes
The antipodes of our existence
Antipodes
Unavailing efforts to rectify the antipodes
The gleaming crystal (The antipodes)
Marred by murky smog
Waiting in the depths to unabashedly reveal itself
A blur, a stain
Misconstrued hellion
Ensnared by incongruent ambitions
Ascetic yet unmistakably wicked
Wayward, errant
Misguided heteroclite on the path to an autotelic existence
Begot from he an impasse
Everlastingly forged
Gazes down upon a flower
This, too, is tainted
Blighted by the unyielding force of entropy
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Gyre of Perdurable Smoke
06:23
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Eradicate the vainglory
For a glimpse of the perennial knowledge within
A manifestation
An ephemeral dream
Clear for a passing second
In the next beclouded and unseen
Stands at the phantasmagoric doorway
On the other side
A darkness looms
Opaque
Swelling
Overbearing
Glances into the threshold
Takes a perfunctory step backwards
All within view
Palpable
Anchored
His surroundings dissipate into omnidirectional smoke
Wisps enmeshed
Infused
The darkness dispelled
Weaved and intertwined
Inlaid and abeyant
Waiting to be enlivened...
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Intoned
08:03
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An Appercipient Form
06:20
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My consciousness slipped
The four of us standing in the room
We were no longer separate beings
Became figments of our friend’s imagination
Our realities herein connected
Only a parcel of one another
Only a piece of one another
An outward appercipient form
Accumbent on the wall
Aphonic and immersed
Antipodal, antipodality
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A Stone Cast Starboard
12:40
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A stone cast starboard
The ripples like fleeting curtains
Each infinitesimally intricate
And amply amorphic
I raise my head to peer onward
As I mutely inquire
“Is there a new drop to be found?”
Overpowered by trepidation
I take a breathe
And move unflinchingly forward
Into the ever-growing expanse
A neoteric who feels the gripping reality set upon me:
“To find anything new I must be alone
Not many would venture here
But where is the new?”
I nod off and awaken, not knowing how far I’ve come
I find myself unhinged by another question
“Can I make a new drop from the sea before me?
Can I use the water around me to make something unique and unparagoned?”
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Fotgjengeren Tbilisi, Georgia
Fotgjengeren is the collaborative experimental project by New York-native Christopher Manning, who now resides in Tbilisi, Georgia.
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