glitchdom dawns

 

REPORTING LIMIT

 by shaun lawton

The servant arrived 

pedaling his bicycle.

He was not standing 

on the pedals.

He was not sitting on 

the velocipede seat.

In fact there was no 

bicycle, which was alarming.

It turns out he wasn't even 

an operator here

No Damage done. 

We are just making 

you aware.

There is someone working 

for you not employed by you
who does not arrive to work 

on a missing bicycle.

Infirmary ward transporter 

returned our patient to 

the wrong room
without having done so. 

Convalescent was found 

in his bed asleep
with the rail down 

and his cell phone 

unplugged from the wall.

This victim was not on oxygen 

yet and was wearing 

a nasal canula
No harm done. 

Hospice envoy failed 

to be polite and smelled 

faintly of Old Spice.

The courier rang our unit's buzzer 

without touching the buzzer button 

Staff alarmed and confused. 

He was also naked while being 

fully clothed. There were no wrinkles 

in his clean work shirt. He shouted 

at us without making a sound. 

He used inappropriate body 

language without moving. 

We noticed his shirt 

was tucked in too perfectly

No harm done.

Patient emissary did not arrive 

with subject because there was no
cause for a transport at the time. 

We checked the sufferer's room
and confirmed they were not there. 

The bed was empty and the side rail 

was down. We called X-ray and the case 

was still getting their exam. 

The carrier was actually sitting down 

doing nothing during the exam. 

No harm done and the courier 

returned patient to their room 

after the exam was over.

Indivisible

 

We stand, wondering 

     how to justify it all 

Stop. Breathe. Fall 

Don't you know how

the world's entangled? 

   It's  undividable 

inalienable a totality 

whose parts mirror 

death to life, we grow

  Interwoven, apart. 

We're justified across 

  this great divide 

 we think we see be-

'tween us, and beyond

  the unbearable lightness

of being here together 

   now when we appear 

 so far and distant to be

  torn apart by inequity 

 we fall through one slit

  to drown in a mirrorball 

    crafted and planted for

   a siamese dream split 

   down the seam as one;

  a harlequin calamity.  

   

 ~shaun lawton 

A perception.

by  shaun lawton 

 Let us begin at the heart 

of it all. Right here, right now.

The only place to be in the universe.

Modern people have a tendency 

to gravitate toward the cutting edge 

of scientific discovery.

Yet we must take care not to lose 

touch with the center of being upon 

which we are all grounded.

The evolution of man describes 

an atavistic circumlocution.

We perceive new incoming data.

While doing so, we tend to reject 

the ancient wisdom in favor of this 

new staggering paradigm.

A lot of bygone knowledge 

may be ranked today among the super-

stitious and patently false, yes.

Yet a good portion of outmoded thought 

still remains relevant today if we remain 

open minded. For instance, the idea 

that we are at the center of the universe 

holds credibility in outer space.

Yet if truth were told, even 

our modern conceptions

of space and time itself fall 

short of the reality.

Einstein hinted at this by 

indicating they are not separate,

but refer to a spacetime continuum.

Clarification sets in when one 

recognizes these are words

describing a natural phenomenon.

It would serve us just as well 

to replace these words

with any suitable configuration 

of symbology. The words spelled 

out as they appear in our lexicons

are not so important as our under

standing itself. We may better 

comprehend the real nature

of our solar system and universe 

by remembering this.

For instance, for an experiment 

try considering that space

itself does not even 

really exist at all.

Think of space as 

the conceptual equivalent

of the number "zero" as it 

pertains to arithmetic.

The numeral zero is not 

so much a number

as it is the representation 

of the absence of numbers.

In a similar fashion, space 

itself may be thought of as

the intermediary area in 

between matter. That is to say, 

it serves us well to think of "space"

as something that doesn't actually exist, 

like zero. In this example, we are left 

with only "time" to consider,

something that is generated 

by motion. The Earth's spin 

and its motion revolving 

about the Sun literally 

creates time as we travel 

in orbit. In this manner 

we are easily led to 

perceive that "time" 

itself is manifested 

by a physical means.

It's a productive 

thought experiment 

which can allow

individuals to better 

comprehend our situation.

Once we realize that time 

appears to be the effect

of celestial bodies in motion, 

we grasp the truth.

We learn the relative 

truth of our condition 

existing here on this planet 

circling our central star.

Recognize the veracity 

of the idea we are not

 merely the center of 

the universe but 

of existence itself.

Caught in the moment

in the eye of a storm

of humanity forming

on the event horizon

of our manifesting dream

A perception.