sitting perfectly still
what it means to live
the meaning an attribute both universal and intrinsic
war and exchange
war is exchange
what it means to exist as a state
a manner of standing status
to declare
stater
an ancient weight and coin
station
statistic
derived
a very large array
never could enter it
the body
never could space
never could occupy space
i
several iterations of
i
change characters
must
a bird on the shore
i
a blast of sound as a feather falls
all eyes to it
a bird leaves the sky
the god of illness is a screen
the god of fear a person
a mind
a black screen out of which emerges a pale hungry ghost – white dots slowly consume the screen and the ghost – the words “get lost” slowly appear out of the whiteness – the the word “don’t” emerges at the beginning of the phrase – followed – very slowly – at the bottom of the screen – by the words “in an abstract sleepwalk”
“There are people in this world committed to spreading rebellion as far as possible. They appear amid the disaster and guide people away from the [wreckage]. They carry a secret flame that can infect entire cities with its brightness. Fulvia carried this flame along with many others, living and dead, and they passed the sacred flame to us. It’s possible Fulvia never had children. Maybe those children are us.”
—The Flames of Fulvia Ferrari by The Cinema Committee
abstract sleepwalk 