~ COCKTAILS

Active potential, passive potential.

I can understand,
Feel,
Experience,
Be changed,
Suffer,
Love.

Man’s sensibility:
I can make, act and modify.

Man’s action:
Possibilities mixed.

I can remember:
My voluntary reflex.




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~ MY ILLUSION


I open my book
I look at my familiar things
I stroke my beard
I compose this piece.

All this passes without impediment,
As if freely, as if these were
Separated and independent events,
Isolated in the void,
And without interaction

And my book
Now lying there
And my hand
Now resting here
Have no interconnection.

Then I suddenly see quite otherwise,
A full volition:
All these things are cogs
Of a single engine,
Jigsaw pieces.

Each displacement is
Inescapably
A substitution,
A liquid molecule
Moved by another.

Now nothing is casual,
Nothing is alone:
The independence of objects
Is now only an appearance.
Their apartness, their noncontact,
Are appearances.

Where is my book?
Where is my hand?




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