(rice) (orange) (tiger) (fish) (RTOF) CAGE (comments)


to the four of you/ dear tiger
good conversation is not poetry,


(when I woke up this morning
it was to write my thesis
but i didn't
it was to write about hospitality and the cage
but i didn't
i will write about it now)

hospitality/ the cage/ design

- hospitality=good
- the cage=bad
- design=good/bad

- hospitality=bad
- the cage=good
- design=good

- hospitality= good/ bad/ good/ g/b
- the cage= bad/ bad/ good/ g/b
- design= bad/ bad/ good/ g/b

the constant perusal of the other over self
constant gauging
creating an experience to size
for the only fit
so that for example
a hand would not exist in space and move freely about
but the hand would exist in experience
a well intentioned experience
sweet or sticky or sickly
made to its fit
it c/would move about as it pleased
it wouldn't be suffocated for lack of space or movement
but for being followed, and seen, and talked to

the hospitality of experience to its guest
c/would be like a cage
a cage is horrible
suffocating
less merciful than the
quick suffocating attack on the jugular of a large prey--
in the near presence of which experience
the suffocated actually die,
faster

the cage is slower

the cage is coveted
it contains a form of love, nourishment, shelter
the zoo animals love their cage, their home
the forest animals as well

laugh and turn design
(will i die more elegantly)
i hate design, but i will
design a wonderful evening for you
made to fit every part of your body
my hospitality someone will argue
to remain behind

people behave

i will leave you be
in four corners
(with no windows, or doors
an open ceiling for me alone)
there is a possibility of claiming areas for your selves
i will watch

quickly become invisible
can invisible things be caged?
invisible things, it is known,
have no materiality
don't change everything
your invisibility has materiality
but without vision
without the visible
i can not help you
you must talk constantly
growl constantly
indicate to me not only your own place of hiding
but the space of hiding that is not yours as well
i will forget otherwise to be democratic
to remember carefully each one of you
(separately, merging into one)

what is amazing is the
internal sense of justice
evolved
untouched
a new crystal language
not needing directions
barbaric animal
why should the plants be treated differently than the animals
what makes something intrinsically more or less complicated
(commanding)
what is the mark of a constant in a series of collapsible parameters

the only reason something is perceived as more complicated
is a series of more or less assumed parameters
the assumptions can't help but be flawed
complexity is a temporary phase
as is the desire for it

but you see my open ceiling meant for me alone
has no real purpose
some of you can make your own food
some of you can't
but its not true
my only purpose is to serve watching you
but its not true
without me your cage will be gone
you'll be free
happy
and dead

finding the path again
you have an internal sense of justice
you haven't killed what you can't eat
(i must eat everything that will kill me/us)
i am dying but won't allow it
everyone else will go first
safely
i must eat all the things that kill me/us
luscious

once everyone is gone, i'll clean
but for your invented self sufficiency
invented vegetarian
don't look at me so
my open ceiling meant only for me

your waste is the food of another
but food for you is invented by me
we never really speak of it
invented food
i have never seen it honestly
but i have faith
it is present
(even if invented)
material
(even if invisible)
you are full
the open ceiling is empty

without a past there is no pattern
although i observe you
you only have an empty ceiling
i am safe
living not in the past,
or the present,
but in the unsafe future
all five of us are invented this way
it is a blessing that you are not--
self-aware in the fashion i am
your memory/memories will never threaten my preserved future

invented vegetarian, assuming leadership
it is only because your language is strongest
how long before you realize your command is stronger than mine
before one claw nicks the open ceiling
you will insist on leaving first

i insist
your internal sense of justice
your killing as per need
please sleep
please sleep
while the rest of us converse silently
slowly

our eyes are small
our eyes can't see
their eyes are not true
they are not just invisible
but nonexistent

generous sleeping eyes
allowing us a chance to speak with touch
sitting still endlessly
listening endlessly
what kind of a conversation are we to have
without words, eyes, or movement

carefully conforming to my hand
my mouth
fixing the intimate cracks between sleep

separate and merging

your sleep, i must be sure
is not death
have i fed you enough
my faith in this invented
invisible meat
dwindles
please growl
i have forgotten to remember carefully