workmen of the wound unite
it is not that people forget that beauty is real
or that they don’t know
everybody knows
the inert world conspires
without agency
to trick you
you are not worthy
but
there are two paths of worthlessness
everything is too much
gratitude
everything is not enough
lack
you have to learn to say yes
and no
at the right time
.
there is never anything new to learn
the catastrophe of the novel
the new doesn’t exist; only the destruction of the old
pretending
every idol collapses
we are the same as we ever were
when everything appears already dead
there is life
do not blackout