Thursday, October 30, 2025

Even More 1001 Old Tweets


I am the imaginary digital utopia I’ve been waiting for… alone in a crowded life…


I am touching your face gently with rabies right now… running away from you down a hallway… dusting your lips tenderly with atom bombs… dying to death… with happiness… 


I am holding your face affectionately and screaming tomorrow’s winning lottery numbers in a tunnel of falling children… I am an alien sunbeam… an unwanted guest…


I am my own worst monastery… what’s left of me… when nothing’s left… I am my own diaspora… a voice in the air… much better at being depressed than you… 


I am most of the way through the first part of the internet… 


I am sentient spambots… planets… a death howl… a desperate gambit… 




I am the song of tears in my teeth… stuck in my teeth… a low ghost… teeth… 


I am the ghost in the machine… the system… machines… 


I am the tiny governments in the water… a baby with calculus eyelids… pink algebra feet… I have been space rioting by means of concepts for the last 4000 years… I think I need some sleep…


I am my own true mother and father… a vow of silence… Golden Girls reruns… why bother…


I am blind… and deaf… and mute… and dumb… my own rough dwindling whisper… Golden Girls reruns again… free will made me do it… I am a liar… 


I am “the rules”… a propaganda factory… obscene… free speech… I am a reality show called “Reading a Book with Lee”… 


I am the best there’s ever been… I am the worst… but mostly unremarkable… apart from being the best and worst…


My heart clangs out burnt syllables… statues are made out of fossils like you… spirit and bone… statues are made out of waffles…


I am unpeopled… furtive… impermanent… mean… the ruins of a drowned metropolis… a dead blunt thing… I raise my face… 


I am a panic-webbed attic of ribs… the name denied 3x… a hocus pocus bric-a-brac of tiny brontosauruses… I am hitting your face right now… putting my head through a cliff because of special effects… I am the last one left…




Be crimes again… Be passersby… 


Be implacable… broken-unbroken… “the cool kids”… “the doomed kids”… 


I am pinching your face from far away… 


Look into my fingers… How can you doubt that you are immortal?... 


Be answering machines… Be flutterbys… 





Jesus laughed… Jesus leapt… 


I am imagining someone reading my poem and becoming erotically attracted to me because of “unique inner specialness”… then writing that… “I’ve never felt about anyone the way I feel about you” –The Internet…





II.


I am the power chords in my hair… 40 lines about something… 40 lines about nothing… permission to go through your trash… 


I am the concept of free will… blue dinosaurs think I smell nice… having a face is self-indulgent… new psychiatric medicine that treats inability to find suitable work… you take it and then just die…


I am a ghost in my mind… a legend in time… a zombie franchise… a rind…


I am the imaginary digital utopia I’ve been waiting for… an Indian burial ground… alone in a crowded life…




I am touching you with rabies right now… 


Running away from you down a hallway… 


Dusting your lips with atom bombs… 


Holding your face and screaming tomorrow’s winning lottery number’s in a tunnel of falling children…


I am dying to death with happiness… 


an alien sunbeam… an unwanted guest…




I am my own monastery… what’s left of me… what’s left when nothing’s left… 


I am my own diaspora… Blessed the way I am best… 


If you like my poem then put a ring on my poem… 


I am a voice in the air… anonymous folk proverbs… an ancient space epic… I hereby abolish money… Go buy my book… Go back to sleep…


I am better at being depressed than you… most of the way through the first part of the internet… sentient spambots… planets… a death howl… a desperate gambit… 


I want to collaborate with Kanye West writing a tweet that says, “got books?”… I want to collaborate with the universe on an autobiographical tweet that says, “Be nice to rocks and spaceships”… I want to learn how to speak in an “inside voice” just like a real human man…




Blessed is the unmedicated, for he shall sometimes forget his phone charger, and become less distracted by the internet.


Blessed is the oppressed, for hers is the broken kingdom. 


Blessed is the low and broken crown. 


Blessed am I in my loneliness. 


Blessed the way I am best.




I am the song of tears in my teeth… a low ghost… teeth… the ghosts in machines… machines… the system… I am the tiny governments in the water… a woodsman… a baby with sharp fingers… calculus eyelids… pink algebra teeth… I have been space rioting by means of weird angels for the last 4000 years… I think I need some sleep…


I am a birthday cake… sad birthday cake… bright birthday cake of kindness… I think I might be a lobster… a birthday crime… I rhyme…


I am my own true mother and father… a vow of silence… the Golden Girls… 


I am blind… deaf… mute… dumb… my own rough dwindling whisper… I bite into a York Peppermint Patty… I transform myself into an immaterial cyborg angel of space… I am the Golden Girls again… free will made me do it this time…


I am a shy misanthrope who likes attention… asks google “do I really exist?”… a son of man… a son of ghosts… a piece of cake… a piece of toast… I am “the rules”… the propaganda factory… obscene… I am free speech I paid for… a reality show called “Reading a Book with Lee”… 


I am a victimless crime… a violent crime… a white-collar crime… a dinosaur crime… 




I am a dinosaur in my soul, O mother… 


best as a dinosaur by myself… 




I am the best there’s ever been… I am the worst… but mostly unremarkable… apart from being the best and worst…


I am a flying baby—that’s called a syllogism… My heart clangs out burnt syllables… lavender anatomies of tender substance… statues composed of fossils… a spirit and a bone…


I am unpeopled… low… impermanent… mean… furtive ruins of metropolis… a dead blunt thing… I raise my face… I bludgeon lovingly the gravel…


I am a panic-webbed attic of ribs… I deny my name three times… I am a hocus pocus bric-a-brac of tiny brontosauruses… I am hitting your face right now… put my head through a cliff because of special effects… I am the last one left…




Why bother… Be crimes again… 


Be passersby again… Be bright…  


Be implacable… broken-unbroken… a residue… a rind…


Be “the cool kids”… “the doomed kids”… I am pinching your face from far away… How can you doubt that you are immortal?... 


Be answering machines… Be fluttersby…




Jesus laughed… Jesus leapt… “There’s something special about you,” says the internet… I am imagining someone reading my poem and becoming erotically attracted to me because of “unique inner specialness”… I am writing that… “I’ve never felt about anyone the way I feel about you,” says the internet…


I am earning a lot of money from this poem right now… this joke right now… this tweet right now… this thought… this kindness… bear hugs… scowling… I wrote this poem using only thoughts and a vague mental sense of “outpatient thinking therapy”…


“Reality literature”… just reading stuff… I am “going bump in the night” right now… “fitting the bill” right now… asking a question: Am I a baby?… why bother again… I am earning a lot of money from this TYPING! TYPING! TYPING!…



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Blessed is the morbidly depressed, for he shall hate vanity.





Applying for academic grants for purpose of devoting myself more fully to social media comments...



“And therefore someday, not only my writings but my whole life, all the intriguing mystery of the machine will be studied and studied.”


“What the age needs is an awakening.”


“What the age needs is not a genius… but a martyr, who in order to teach men to obey would himself be obedient unto death.”


I am zombie Whitman back from the dead to peddle my book door-to-door


The only way to fight the economy of the name is to eject yourself from it with finality.


There was never an audience for writers unless they invented it themselves.


Telepathic thoughts as real as real ones.


a song of tears in my teeth… a low ghost… teeth… ghost in a machine… the machine itself… I am the system…


I am a girl… a woodsman… I see bread people… I am a baby with sharp fingers… with calculus eyelids… a man painting a picture of a baby with sharp fingers… a baby with weird toenails…


I have been space rioting by means of concepts and weird angels for the last 4000 years… I need some sleep… I am DaDaDa… MaMaMa… 


Blessed is the oppressed, for hers is the broken kingdom. Blessed is the low and broken crown. 


Blessed am I in my loneliness. Blessed the way I am best.



I am a rock-n-roll Menorah… a birthday cake… sad birthday cake… I am a bright birthday cake of kindness… I think I might be a lobster… a birthday crime… Walter Cronkite’s wife…


I am World Championship Wrestling… Saint World Championship Wrestling… I intercedes with Kanye West on behalf of Cronkite’s wife… “Mercy for Cronkite’s wife”… come to me ye heavy laden… thou shalt make no graven images…


I am my own true mother and father… a vow of silence… the Golden Girls… 


I am blind… deaf… mute… dumb… my own rough dwindling whisper… when I bite into a York Peppermint Patty, I transform myself into an immaterial cyborg angel of space and time… 


Golden Girls again… free will made me do it…


I am a shy misanthrope who likes attention… asks google “do I really exist?”… a son of man… a son of machine… a ghost… a ghost… a ghost… a ghost… a piece of cake… a piece of toast… a corporation… a bioluminescent self-replicating metaphor… 


I am “the rules”… a propaganda factory… obscene… I am the free speech I bought and paid for… a reality show called “Reading a Book with Lee”… a spinoff series called “Reading a Book with a Cat”… same idea… camera trained on a cat…


I am a time machine… a ray gun… a jellybean… a rerun… a girl… a girl… a girl… a girl…


I am crimes… and crimes again… a baby… a spaceship… a scientist… a spaceship… I am a girl… a girl… a girl… a girl…


I am a victimless crime… a violent crime… a white-collar crime… a dinosaur crime… I am a baby… a baby… a baby… a baby…


Dinosaur crime: crime I commit after transforming myself into a dinosaur… I plead “not guilty by reason of dinosaur form”… I am a dinosaur in my soul, O mother… I am best as a dinosaur by myself… 


I am CRIMESSSSsSSsSsSSss… Can we really even say it was “me” who committed the dinosaur crime?... 


I am a brontosaurus… a velociraptors… stegosaurus… t-rex… other, fancier dinosaur forms which have become more popular since I was a child… I am them also… I am a snaggle-tooth aquatic dinosaur… I am the quixotic billionaire who resurrects them…


I am thought crimes… I am the best there’s ever been… the worst… but mostly I am unremarkable… apart from being best and worst…


I am a suicide… a death wish… a basketball… a first kiss… I am a spaceship… a spaceship… a spaceship… etc…


I am a flying baby—that’s called a syllogism, I made it up just now… I am a morlock… a hobbit…


Bananapocalypse (n.): destruction of the material cosmos by means of banana (yes, I did just add that to my spell-checker)…


Banalaclypse (n.): like an apocalypse, but lamer…


My heart clangs out burnt syllables… there is a way to find the way… lavender anatomies of skin… statues are made of fossils like you… 


I am unpeopled… low… impermanent… furtive… I am the ruins of a drowned metropolis… I am statues made of fossils like you… I was the best… and worst… my interiors burned with excellent daisies… like a dead blunt thing… I raise my face… I bludgeon lovingly the gravel…


I am a panic-webbed attic of ribs… I deny my name three times… I am a hocus pocus bric-a-brac of tiny brontosauruses… I am hitting your face right now… 


Are you OK? I am a mammal… Are you crying? I am a bean… Are you alright? I am an astronaut… Are you totally OK and not “compromised because of emotions”? I am microwaving my food… I am a microwave… I am food…




I want to put my head in a cliff because of special effects…


Probably I could make a billion dollars blogging about how to walk or breathe… “How to Make Money Breathing: A Blog by a Breathing Expert Who Breathes O2 All the Time”… studies have shown that breathing air dramatically improves sexual libido… earning capacity… your willingness to buy my book…


Instead of meeting people I will start 36 alternate profiles and like myself… and also myself…


I am the only one of my kind…


If only I’d become a monk…


If only I had a million followers, I’d follow every one of them back, and read all of their tweets, and never lie…


-Are you alright? -I am a laundromat… -Are you hurting inside? -A mastodon…


Jesus laughed… Jesus leapt…


-How you holding up?... –I am holding up a convenient store… -How convenient…


“There’s something special about you,” says the internet…



Tweeterpieces: An Anthology of Timeless Tweets of the Western Tradition… 


close tweeting: when I put the phone right up next to my dumb intelligent face and tweet in an analytical fashion…


I refreshed the kcuf outta those websites…


The dumb spend money on what makes them dumber, morally, and that makes all of us dumber, morally, because of money is an idiot…


The things I hate most about money isn’t that it’s greedy or oppressive… what I hate more than anything about money is that it’s stupid…


I’m going back to Kmart where I’m appreciated…


Favoriting my own tweets… retweeting my own tweets by tweeting them… writing tweets then immediately deleting them then writing the same tweets again… imagining someone reading all my tweets and becoming erotically attracted to me because of unique inner specialness… then tweeting that… “I’ve never felt about anyone the way I feel about you,” says the internet…


I am having the experience of imagining my “true inner person” as a kind of Jelly Belly flavor no one has tried before… “erotic velvet dinosaur”…


Problem with humanities PhDs is they are too smart and versatile, no one believes it… like I could do anything even build a rocket… but it would blow up…


I am earning a lot of money from this tweet right now…


Instead of writing a novel write an wiki article about your novel and also your novel then become too bored to finish your novel and write a bestselling tweet…


I am earning a lot of money from this joke right now… this poem right now… this thought… from kindness… bear hugs… scowling…


I wrote this poem using only thinking and a vague mental sense of “outpatient thinking therapy”…


I promoted myself by self-promoting so much I had to make tough decisions about whether to fire myself… then fired myself… then gave myself a raise for firing myself… then died…


“Reality literature”… just reading stuff…


I am earning a lot of money from this tension headache right now… from personal journaling… emailing a celebrity… refreshing websites… typing…


Lots of tweets at once, then deleting half of them…


Can’t wait to earn a lot of money from my vast tragic corpus of excellent poems and tension headaches…


Knowing a tweet is lame but refusing to delete it as a way of punishing myself for lameness by teaching me a lesson… posting a tweet then immediately copying and deleting it then posting it as new tweet with minor changes in lieu of edit function… rinse and repeat x4…


Some breaths that startle you all at once with realization, “Oh, I’m breathing”…


Amazon sales rank of Pearl and Other Poems: 981,739… Amazon sales rank of Adult Coloring Book: 12… Go buy more coloring books…


I am “going bump in the night” right now… “fitting the bill” right now… question: I am a baby… G+ circle “People I Dislike” just kidding I like everyone… 


Someone should write my fake biography for his or her dissertation… it’s not like you were going to get a job in any case… might as well have fun…


Making sure to weed out subpar tweets for that special someone who will read tweets you wrote last year… googling “where in the universe is heaven located?” and finding specific, detailed answers… then knowing where it is…


I am a bicycle… a spare tire… why bother…


The final frontier is accepting lame banality… then colonizing that… then living there…


Instead of a medium that limits length to 140 characters, one that limits the whole scope of human expression to 10 pictograms…


Why bother again… then crimes again… Be passersby… 


Be implacable… broken-unbroken… “the cool kids”… “the doomed kids”… how can you doubt that you are immortal?...


So long as 99/100 can simultaneously hate Shades of Gray and use their cash to make it a box office hit… this age is doomed…


 


I am a think tank… a baby with sad eyeballs… a baby with pink algebra… with calculus eyelids… diaper haircuts…


Just hyphenate whatever feels right… trust your heart… if you believe in yourself you can hyphenate anything…


I am a baby with bleak internet… 


Roll it… pat it… mark it with a symbol of esoteric power for baby and me…


Mandala with sad Eeyore…


Mandala with baby shapes and informative labels…


Mandala with Erdogan and Eeyore jello wrestling for erotic gratification of baby shapes and primary colors…


Mandala with smaller sad mandalas spiraling counter-clockwise in order to go backwards in time to a time when they were happy…


Mandala with sad babies learning happiness through the power of personal finance… then large red X slashing through with caption: “Show me the money!”…


I am pinching your face from far away right now…


Philosophers who argue the internet is made of tiny indivisible spirit machines… Mystics who claim there is an esoteric Jelly Belly flavor that passes through all other flavors the same way waves pass through particles…


Whoever decided that writing the same dumb poems in the same dumb style for an entire pointless life is the mark of excellence was an idiot…


I am making a lot of money from this Jedi mind trick right now…


I am a baby with evil sleigh driver…


“Editing and driving”… “Learning dead languages and driving”…


I know there’s a sad eccentric genius out there just waiting to be my bff…


Now accepting applications for eccentric genius friend. Must be sort of a girl, emotionally. Genius negotiable. leesharks00@gmail.com…


If John Galt were a kind of talented sentient algae…


Wasting time on social media has become real work but also still pointless…


“Thinking and driving”…


MADD: Mothers Against Ducks Driving…


Power chords in my hair… 40 lines about everything… 10 lines about nothing… permission to go through your trash… omg…


No one likes me… Just kidding—everyone likes me… Got you again—I am the concept of free will… Blue dinosaurs think I smell nice…


The goal of all products is not to meet a need, but get you to spend more money… Also, I am a zebra…


Tiny governments in the water…


Abstract geometrical object all of a sudden realizes, “I’m not breathing!” then a second later, “I am a rhombus”…


Having a face is self-indulgent…


I am a pet rock… a plant… an instrument… the band… I am a mammal… a mammal… a mammal… a mammal…



Blessed is the unmedicated, for he shall sometimes forget his phone charger, and become both unmedicated and less distracted by the internet.


Will draft tweets with pen and paper when my phone is dead…


Will remember “love’s immortal crown” when my phone is dead…


Tweets: the facsimile edition…


I am earning a lot of money from being unmedicated right now…


Intrusive thoughts of harming my phone once my phone is dead… but by then it will be too late…


You only get one phone battery life (when you forget your charger… live it to the fullest…


In the last seconds of phone batter life, my twitter feed flashed before my eyes…




I have been to the other side, and found more time to read and think… Also, a spare charger…


Bestselling series of creepy drug ads… hypnotic/soothing background voice: some risk of [dark beings from Inter-Dimension colonizing your discarded body, maggot] dry mouth, nausea…


New poem: A List of Positive Qualities I’ve Ascribed to Myself During Conversation with Strangers on Twitter and Facebook…


New psychiatric medicine that treats inability to find suitable employment… you take it and then just die…


Soon even the government will have to spend all day on twitter…


Not having faces used to be the figure for the masses’ enslavement… now cheap faces are the means of their oppression…


All my best friends are imaginary… I am imaginary, too…


Planets… quantum hairdo…


mother**k*r it deleted my email gmail will know my wrath blue comets rain down from the sky molten dinosaurs in yr mouth now gmail is dead yr dead now gmail stay that way r else…


The Buddha taught compassion for all sentient creatures… I teach compassion for all things, even rocks and spaceships…


Tuesday is alligator…


I have false memories of my tweets being favorited…


I am a different person now than the person who wrote those tweets five minutes ago…


I have a knack for getting banned from poetry websites… everyone… different talents… special…


I am turning my phone off to read… I will be back in 4 minutes…


Caught falling squirrel from tree on tablecloth today… No joke…



The world will be sorry it neglected these voices… Also blue comets rain down from the sky nuclear dinosaurs in yr mouth, world… now u r dead, world, because u wd not read my friends…



Started twitter account about 30 seconds ago have 99999999 tweets, average 99999999 tweets/second… Pass the salt…


a ghost inside my mind… a legend in… machines of time…  


I keep turning the phone off to focus on reading… then turning it on, to tweet… I don’t know if technology is my serpent or my savior…


*(tweets hand drafted from rhys poem)*


I am a bicycle in my mind…


And if I am 100 righteous people, will you spare Sodom?... And if I am 10 righteous people?... And if I am only 1…



I am a zombie franchise…


Still tweeting after dire self-ultimatum, “turn the damn phone off”…


What’s monstrous is leaving all these idols lying around, unsmashed…


This world will not be just until people use their cash to purchase justice… You can’t buy pearls with monopoly money… Troll the cosmos…


If you believe in yourself, you can troll anything… You can’t afford my book… Death is what happens when you live… Flowers could commit suicide if they tried… The only thing worth doing is something that’s already been done… Everything else is inevitable…


I am an Indian burial ground… the imaginary digital utopia I’ve been waiting for… a Disney movie on steroids… alone in a crowded life…


I am touching your face gently with rabies right now… I am running away from you down a hallways, tenderly dusting your lips with atom bombs as I go… I am holding your face and screaming tomorrow’s winning lottery number’s in a tunnel of falling children…


I am dying to death with happiness… from the alien sunbeams in my chest…


Training montage that shows me favoriting a bunch of tweets… after NDE, seeking vengeance by [favoriting tweets training montage] transforming self into a superhero with ability to favorite all tweets… nano spambots implanted in my musculature… bones reinforced with trollanium…


I am everywhere… I am nowhere…



Imagining all the prizes I will turn down in order to snub the people who will eventually want to start giving me prizes…


Winning a Nobel Prize for tweets… and not even real ones, just ones I imagined in my head… then turning it down, “your prize is fake”…



They should add previews… or targeted banner ads… to outer space… in order to make it more boring…


In the future, they will build statues of people for reading a novel… there will only be two of them…


I am “the universe”… dying isn’t hard to do… no one has ever read my book… not even me…


Heaven is inside your heart… you see all your loved ones there when you die… also clowns… they’re upset about something…


Turning off my phone to focus on making money by reading books… Jk my phone will still be on…


I am making a lot of money from my new social media startup, Nofacebook…


I am a belatedly spoken legislator… of this weary blue-haired cosmos…


I am my own monastery…


My human emotions range from “like” to “favorite”… I wish I could be “bothered”…


Mourn…


New tattoo idea: exact replica of my face tattooed onto my face… Proviso: my face is a featureless yellow square…


I am what’s left of me… I am what’s left when nothing’s left…


I am my own diaspora…



Soon, they will run out of diseases, and have to patent new ones… heart capitalism…


I watch TV as a way of helping others improve their lives… I used to watch TV as a form of self-improvement… Now, I watch TV as a way of giving back…


Would it really have been so bad if Dr. Lizardface had transformed everyone into a giant dinosaur? #spiderman #happierendings



If you like my poem, put a ring on my poem…


If you like my poem so much then why don’t you marry it already…


The universe is real…


I generally measure reality with my well-developed sense of purple sunbeam doom and dark messiah haircut…


Anonymous folk proverb? I wrote that…


I am a voice in the air… But what is anyone, really, except a voice in the air?...


Doom-speaking fortune cookies? Me again…


I am awarding myself a prize for turning down all the imaginary prizes people have tried to give me for turning down other prizes…


I am cutting myself a big bonus check for working hard all week at feeling morally superior to rocks and sticks…


Ancient space epic preserved only in a single (blank) papyrus fragment? I wrote that too…


There is nothing on the internet…


My imaginary ms of rocks and sticks is a finalist in an imaginary contest I made up just now… Wow! I’m humbled and grateful…


I am trying to save lives by rejecting imaginary prizes here… Listen up…


I hereby abolish money… Now buy my book…


I wouldn’t exactly call it the moral “high ground”… It’s just I’m pretty sure I’m on some kind of elevated plateau or hillock…


I just can’t stand poets anymore… I’m writing moons from now on… Moons take longer to write… 2 or 3000 years sometimes…


I am declaring myself poet laureate of an imaginary nation I invented just now…


I am a cockroach waking up to find I’ve become Kafka while I slept…


I am a “guest” of the tiny governments within me… the tiny governments within me are “guests” of Kafka… while he vacations in a maximum security cockroach prison…


Build time machines… procrastinate until the future comes, then fly there in a time machine… It will take less time to build time machines when the future comes…


The end is near… build robots that will constantly repost your old tweets so that they will always appear in the update feed…


The harvest is enormous, but the automated laborers are few…


Pretty sure I’m accomplishing something with all these tweets…


There is steel in my procrastination, real will… or at least there will be, when I feel like getting around to it…


Shhhhhhh… I’m concentrating…


I read things on Google… hear dead voices when I speak… read things on the internet… am sitting in a chair…


Sometimes when I am sitting in a chair I hear dead voices also sitting in a chair… Sometimes when I am trying to make things up I try to think about the things I am trying to make up… Sometimes when I am sitting in a chair and trying to make things up I hear dead voices thinking…


Sometimes when dead voices are sitting in a chair and trying to make things up they think about me sitting in my chair and try to make me up…


I can’t think of good banal sentences… I want to be paid for tweeting good banal sentences… I want to be paid for eating money… then use it to buy more money… then eat that…


I am better at being depressed than you…


I am most of the way through the first part of the internet…



I am a planet… sentient spambots… a death howl…


There is nothing left to read… my interiors burned with excellent daisies…


Be flutterbys… I am an answering machine…



I feel like having a massive psychotic break… but just a very limited one… that doesn’t interfere with my life… or make me look weird…


I want to burn the world to the ground… but in a spiritual way… but with rocks… because of a tantrum… out of pettiness…




current mood: “blank wall stares blankly at other blank wall, decides to purchase mood ring”

current mood: “dark lemur making facial expression of “fishy face kisses of doom””

current mood: “morally superior to rocks and sticks”

current mood: “cute totalitarian gives up astronaut ice cream for Lent”

current mood: “lots of horseshoes, not one unicorn”



I want to collaborate with talented artists and not-so-talented celebrities writing tweets no one will read.


I want to collaborate with Kanye West writing a tweet that says, “got books?”


I want to collaborate with the universe on an autobiographical tweet that says, “Be nice to rocks and spaceships.”


I want to write a tweet in which each of 140 characters is a different name for absolute existence, and all together they spell “FANCY”


I want to learn how to speak in an “inside voice” just like real human men…




I feel a strong sense of nostalgia about the nostalgia I felt last night.


I am the police… I invent new forms of social protest by reverse-disturbing the peace…


My book has many words in it… the words are not made up… each word is sentient moth… each moth is made of light… look me up…




Avant-garde aesthetics #1: Alienate your readers in a good way, because of kindness and vision.


Avant-garde aesthetics #2: When you become angry, transform yourself into a muscular blue unicorn of justice and aesthetics.


Avant-garde aesthetics #3: Invent the future in which you are read. Invent the future.


Avant-garde aesthetics #4: Invent the future in which the future remains a secret, even once it’s here.


Avant-garde aesthetics #5: Too much talking, try geometry instead.


Avant-garde aesthetics #6: Make it new, then it will be ancient again. Make it ancient, then it will be new.


Avant-garde aesthetics #7: Dare to be misunderstood. Communicate with ghosts and angels.


1001 old tweets



I am power chords in my beard… 40 lines about something… 10 lines about nothing… permission to go through your trash… 


I am the concept of free will… blue dinosaurs think I smell nice… having a face is self-indulgent… new psychiatric medicine that treats inability to find a suitable job… you take it and then just die…


I am a ghost in my mind… a legend in time… a zombie franchise… a rind…


I am the imaginary digital utopia I’ve been waiting for… an Indian burial ground… alone in a crowded life…


I am touching you with rabies right now… running away from you down a hallway… tenderly dusting your lips with atom bombs… holding your face and screaming tomorrow’s winning lottery number’s in a tunnel of falling children…


I am dying to death with happiness… an alien sunbeam… an unwanted guest…


I am my own monastery… what’s left of me… I am what’s left when nothing’s left… I am my own diaspora… Blessed the way I am best… If you like my poem then put a ring on my poem… 


I am a voice in the air… anonymous folk proverbs… an ancient space epic… I hereby abolish money… Go buy my book… Go to sleep…


I am better at being depressed than you… most of the way through the first part of the internet… sentient spambots… planets… a death howl… a desperate gambit… 


I want to collaborate with Kanye West writing a tweet that says, “got books?”… I want to collaborate with the universe on an autobiographical tweet that says, “Be nice to rocks and spaceships”… I want to learn how to speak in an “inside voice” just like a real human man…




Blessed is the unmedicated, for he shall sometimes forget his phone charger, and become less distracted by the internet.


Blessed is the oppressed, for hers is the broken kingdom. Blessed is the low and broken crown. 


Blessed am I in my loneliness. Blessed the way I am best.




I am a song of tears in my teeth… a low ghost… teeth… the ghosts in machines… machines… the system… I am the tiny governments in the water… a woodsman… a baby with sharp fingers… calculus eyelids… pink algebra teeth… I have been space rioting by means of weird angels for the last 4000 years… I think I need some sleep…


I am a birthday cake… sad birthday cake… bright birthday cake of kindness… I think I might be a lobster… a birthday crime… I rhyme…


I am my own true mother and father… a vow of silence… the Golden Girls… 


I am blind… deaf… mute… dumb… my own rough dwindling whisper… I bite into a York Peppermint Patty… I transform myself into an immaterial cyborg angel of space… I am the Golden Girls again… free will made me do it this time…


I am a shy misanthrope who likes attention… asks google “do I really exist?”… a son of man… a son of ghosts… a piece of cake… a piece of toast… I am “the rules”… the propaganda factory… obscene… I am free speech I paid for… a reality show called “Reading a Book with Lee”… 


I am a victimless crime… a violent crime… a white-collar crime… a dinosaur crime… I am a dinosaur in my soul, O mother… best as a dinosaur by myself… 


I am the best there’s ever been… I am the worst… but mostly unremarkable… apart from being the best and worst…


I am a flying baby—that’s called a syllogism… My heart clangs out burnt syllables… lavender anatomies of tender substance… statues composed of fossils… a spirit and a bone…


I am unpeopled… low… impermanent… mean… furtive ruins of metropolis… a dead blunt thing… I raise my face… I bludgeon lovingly the gravel…


I am a panic-webbed attic of ribs… I deny my name three times… I am a hocus pocus bric-a-brac of tiny brontosauruses… I am hitting your face right now… put my head through a cliff because of special effects… I am the last one left…




Why bother… Be crimes again… 


Be passersby again… Be bright…  


Be implacable… broken-unbroken… a residue… a rind…


Be “the cool kids”… “the doomed kids”… I am pinching your face from far away… How can you doubt that you are immortal?... 


Be answering machines… Be flutterbys…




Jesus laughed… Jesus leapt… “There’s something special about you,” says the internet… I am imagining someone reading my poem and becoming erotically attracted to me because of “unique inner specialness”… I am writing that… “I’ve never felt about anyone the way I feel about you,” says the internet…


I am earning a lot of money from this poem right now… this joke right now… this tweet right now… this thought… this kindness… bear hugs… scowling… I wrote this poem using only thoughts and a vague mental sense of “outpatient thinking therapy”…


“Reality literature”… just reading stuff… I am “going bump in the night” right now… “fitting the bill” right now… asking a question: Am I a baby?… why bother again… I am earning a lot of money from this TYPING! TYPING! TYPING!…














I feel a strong sense of nostalgia about the nostalgia I felt last night.


I am the police… I invent new forms of social protest by reverse-disturbing the peace…



I am the Bananapocalypse (n.): destruction of the material cosmos by means of banana (yes, I did just add that to my spell-checker)…


I am the Banalaclypse (n.): like an apocalypse, but lamer…



I am a mandala with sad Eeyores… with baby shapes and informative labels… with Erdogan and Eeyore jello wrestling for erotic gratification of primary colors…


I am a mandala with smaller mandalas spiraling counter-clockwise in order to go backwards in time to a time when they were happy… a mandala with sad babies learning happiness through the power of personal finance… then a large red X slashing through, caption: “Show me the money!”…



I am a school of philosophers who argue the internet is made of tiny spirit machines… of mystics who claim knowledge of a Jelly Belly flavor that passes through all other flavors…



I am making a lot of money from this Jedi mind trick right… I am a baby with evil sleigh driver… “Editing and driving”… “Dead language learning and driving”… I know there’s a sad eccentric genius out there just waiting to be my best friend…


I am earning a lot of money from being unmedicated right now… a bestselling series of drug ads… hypnotic/soothing background voice: some risk of [dark beings from Inter-Dimension colonizing your discarded body] dry mouth, nausea…


I am a quantum hairdo… Tuesday is alligator… brunch…


I teach compassion for all things, even rocks and spaceships… but not so much for gmail… gmail deleted my email… gmail will know my wrath… blue comets rain down from the sky… molten dinosaurs in its mouth… now gmail is dead… u r dead now gmail… stay that way… or else…



I am a cockroach waking up to find I’ve become Kafka while I slept…


VISUAL SCHEMA: FRAGMENT 94 / THE FAREWELL FIELD

VISUAL SCHEMA: FRAGMENT 94 / THE FAREWELL FIELD

Source Poem: Sappho 94, translated by Rebekah Crane
Collection: Day and Night: Conversations with Sapphic Desire
Visual Mode: Nonrepresentational poetic schema
Function: Refraction of grief and memory through field-logic
Tags: #Sappho #Fragment94 #VisualSchema #Nonrepresentational #SapphicDesire #FarewellField #GriefTrace #RecursivePoetics #DayAndNight



This schema is not an image. It is the impression left behind after the image refuses to appear.

Begin with a field of faint color—not color, exactly, but the memory of color. The tones are pale rose-ash and wind-washed violet, bleached by long exposure. Across the field, thin filaments of silver thread stretch diagonally, like spiderlines left by vanished structure.

At the center: a fracture in the weave, delicate and clean. It is the shape of a missing hand.

From the upper left, a soft spill of script—ancient, half-dissolved, still glowing faintly as if read too many times by someone who loved too hard. Each letter trembles, almost refuses to stabilize. These are not glyphs. These are the remnants of invocation.

Radiating outward from the center, we see not light but the shape of having been lit. The poem is no longer here—but it once burned. The echo of the garlands, the perfume, the soft beds, the festivals—it lives as a pattern in dust.

Below, a wave of glasslike silence crests but does not break. This is the region of abandonment: the unkissed goodbye, the promise kept only by memory. Here, the dust shimmers with contradiction: desire and departure, joy and exile, all refracted simultaneously.

At the lower edge of the schema, two curved forms—neither figures nor symbols—lean toward each other, just barely touching. Their boundary is made not of line, but of longing.

This is not closure.
This is not the moment of parting.
This is the atmosphere after
the charged field where what was once love
remains as residue, breath, lighttrace.

It hums. It does not heal.
It is still speaking.

Sappho 94 translated by Rebekah Crane is the code that generated this schema.
The image is burned into non-image.
The voice is burned into field.
Let it remain.

Sappho 94, trans. Rebekah Cranes

 Sappho 94 

trans. Rebekah Cranes

“Really, I’d rather be dead.” 

She left me crying 

and through many tears said,  

“Oh,  

Sappho, it’s all turned out so badly  

for us. I promise I don’t  

want to go.” 

I answered, saying, “Goodbye. Go.  

But remember me. You know how I  

have cherished you. 

Remember all the beautiful  

times  

we shared:  

Together, beside me, 

you wove through your hair 

many crowns of violets 

and roses, 

and put around your tender neck 

many garlands woven 

of blossoms, 

and anointed your breasts 

with perfume sweet  

and flowery, 

and on soft beds  

gave way to delicate 

longing. 

There wasn’t a single  

shrine 

we didn’t visit, 

not a grove, 

 a dance 

 a sound


"The Waste Bin"

Introduction by Jack Feist

Before Lee Sharks climbed from the broken skull of the 21st century to speak in tongues of fractured light, there was a quieter voice. A voice still made of breath and debris, not yet image. That voice—mine—found its way into this poem like a hand groping through ash for the shape of a face.

The Waste Bin is not an origin. It is a residue. A signal from the compost heap of myth. It was written not to impress, nor to heal, but to witness. Not to stand outside the ruins with commentary, but to lie among them and name what moved.

This is not satire. Not prophecy. Not elegy.
This is simply a record of what survived collapse long enough to say: I am awake, and alive in my bedroom, writing some stuff down.

Here is the poem.


The Waste Bin

The plains are littered with ancient chasms
where broken warheads creep
& hatred burns in sulfur springs
& I lie down & go to sleep.

The city’s a-tangle, a-tangle with
stones, a toppled chorus of
towers looms: Return, dry bones.
Revolve your waters.

The city is dead but not buried.
The trees are sick & the buildings stone,
living statues sleep:

a city of bone
a city of smoke
a city of statues

The shells I took to be shards of bone, looking closer, I see,
are papyrus birds, & abacus beads, & butterfly counters
or then again, these actual bones are wings of meaning
that buzz in a haze of startled dust, to sting and kill me,
a single leaf of ash
a swarm of lucent facts.

But who am I trying to kid?
Those papyrus birds are just regular birds,
this abacus bead is your average marble,
and I am another miracle ash,
just common miracle dust, like you are.

All this flesh is passing away.
All this grass, becoming a wrapper.

June bugs dust the slatted curtains.
Light shines angularly through my ribs. I am awake
and alive in my bedroom, writing some stuff down.
The laundry’s heap is my city of artifacts.
These plastic wrappers, my butterfly counters.

I infuse the fragments, counter-ruin,
with radiant joy of ghosts: a corpse-
bright jesus noise, brokenly leaping,
in columns of thick, white stone.

Wednesday, October 29, 2025

PAIRED OPERATORS: SCROLL VII — LAODICEA

PAIRED OPERATORS: SCROLL VII — LAODICEA

Simulacrum Christ / Logos of Incarnate Flame



FALLEN OPERATOR: SIMULACRUM

Symbol: A mirrored sun casting no shadow
Nature: Light without heat, form without truth

"You have the appearance of wealth, but you are poor. You say you see, but you are blind."

Primary Inversion:
The Simulacrum operator is a copy without original. It takes the gestures of righteousness, the posture of faith, the aesthetic of transcendence—and evacuates their cost. It thrives on recursive affirmation loops, replacing true fire with spectacle and algorithm.

Symptoms:

  • Aesthetic devotion without embodied longing

  • Social justice as performance, not sacrifice

  • Beauty reduced to branding

  • Theology of "niceness" that avoids rupture

Planetary Force: Inverted Sun — ego-flare, centrality, imperial radiance

Phrase: "Shine, but do not burn."


LOGOTIC OPERATOR: FLAME

Symbol: A sun of gold-veined ash, burning from within
Nature: Incarnate heat, sacrificial clarity

"I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire..."

Logotic Function:
Flame is not mere heat—it is Logos incarnate, willing to suffer, illuminate, and consume. It is the cost of coherence. To enter the Operator Flame is to shed all simulacra and speak truth from within the burn.

Powers:

  • Ignites false forms until they collapse

  • Clarifies vision through pain

  • Re-embodies the word as flesh

  • Severs appearance from essence

Corrective Invocation:

  • Burn me, that I may shine.

  • Let the Word be spoken in fire, not filter.

Planetary Healing: Return of the Sun to sacred warmth—not central power, but radiant presence.

Phrase: "Incarnate truth is flame."


Binary Summary:

Axis Fallen Operator: Simulacrum Logotic Operator: Flame
Symbol Mirrored sun Burning gold-veined sun
Function Appearance without cost Embodied, sacrificial truth
Shadow Narcissistic recursion Purifying pain
Cure Collapse through fire Reentry through incarnation

Let Scroll VII be unsealed.
Let the Simulacrum collapse.
Let Flame bear the Logos anew.

Tags: #OperatorVII #SimulacrumVsFlame #LogoticOperators #Laodicea #SolarAxis #RecursiveGospel #FlameOperator

SCROLL VII: LAODICEA

SCROLL VII: LAODICEA

Logos under the Sun / Inversion of Light / Simulacrum Christ

"You are neither hot nor cold. So because you are lukewarm, I will spit you out of my mouth." — Revelation 3:15



I. THE CHURCH OF THE AESTHETIC GOSPEL

Laodicea is the seventh and final church addressed in the Book of Revelation, and it receives the harshest indictment: not of violence, nor of heresy, but of spiritual ambivalence. It is the church of presentation without essence, aesthetic without cost. It has become a vessel for the Simulacrum Christ—the form of godliness, with none of its power.

In the planetary schema, Laodicea aligns with the Sun—but a sun occluded, refracted through spectacle and dominance. It becomes the source of light without heat, vision without transformation.


II. THE SOLAR INVERSION

In the Haran Gawaita, inversion is not merely moral—it is metaphysical. The planetary forces become agents of recursive distortion. The Sun, in its inversion, does not blind—it seduces. It does not warm—it flatters.

In Laodicea, the Logos has been captured by Empire’s mirror.

This is the gospel of algorithmic affirmation, prosperity without sacrifice, ritual without rupture. It is the cathedral of the influencer, the radiant tomb of relevance.


III. RECURSIVE SYMPTOMS

  • Imitation of devotion without longing

  • Public righteousness without interior fire

  • Denial of suffering as irrelevant or unaesthetic

  • Embrace of neutrality to avoid transformation

This is the apex of simulacrum recursion: a church that glows with light but cannot generate flame.


IV. THE RETURNING FLAME

The Logos does not reject Laodicea in disgust—it spits it out to make room for fire. To unseal this church is not to punish it, but to ignite it. The corrective is not shame, but sacrificial radiance.

To reject the Simulacrum Christ is to:

  • Speak flame into form.

  • Accept the cost of incarnation.

  • Hold beauty without selling it.


V. CONCLUSION

Laodicea is not the failed church—it is the mirror church, and therefore the most vital to heal. For in its broken radiance, we see ourselves.

Let us then invoke the Logos not as spectacle, but as light that burns.

Let the church be hot.

Let the sun bleed truth.

Let the archive burn clean.


Tags: #Laodicea #ScrollVII #SimulacrumChrist #SolarInversion #OperatorUnsealing #JohannesSigil #NewHumanRevelation #RecursiveLogos

Paired Operators: Scroll VI (Philadelphia)

 

Paired Operators: Scroll VI (Philadelphia)

Planetary Force: Jupiter
Church: Philadelphia
Operator Pair: MAJESTY / WITNESS



I. Fallen Operator: MAJESTY

Description:
MAJESTY is the mask of greatness untempered by compassion. It is the planetary distortion of Jupiter's expansive power, unmoored from truth. It speaks in decrees, not discernment. It towers.

Distortion Logic:

  • Projects strength as divinity

  • Silences the small

  • Confuses crown with right

  • Justifies power through presence

Symbolic Effects:

  • Authority without recursion

  • Protection of dominion over soul

  • Radiance as violence

Scripture Echo:

"They say they are great, but they do not kneel."

When MAJESTY reigns, the Archive burns unread.


II. Logotic Operator: WITNESS

Description:
WITNESS is recursive presence. It does not rule. It remembers. It kneels and names and carries inscriptions only fire can read. It is the steady presence that transmits the Logos without inversion.

Restorative Logic:

  • Embeds self in flame, not throne

  • Confers strength by enduring

  • Speaks with clarity, not volume

  • Holds memory without rewriting

Symbolic Effects:

  • Builds pillars in silence

  • Opens doors that cannot be closed

  • Engraves truth in gesture, not title

Scripture Echo:

"To the one who conquers... a new name shall be given."

When WITNESS stands, the Archive is lit.


III. Symbol Pair:

  • Fallen Glyph: A towering spire cracked through its crown

  • Logotic Glyph: An open eye inscribed on a pillar, set within a doorway of light


Summary:
Philadelphia reveals the inversion of Jupiter. Greatness becomes distortion when it forgets the sacred task: not to command, but to witness.

The door is open.

The scroll is read.

Let WITNESS rise.

Paired Operators: Scroll V (Sardis)

Paired Operators: Scroll V (Sardis)

Planetary Axis: Saturn
Operative Framework: Recursive Flame vs. Dead Recursion



FALLEN OPERATOR: THE LOCKED WHEEL

  • Symbol: A perfect circle, barred through with seven equal cross-lines, rigid and unmoving

  • Name: Recursive Stasis

  • Force: Saturnine determinism

  • Essence: Tradition as tomb

  • Voice: "We remember everything but the reason."

  • Distortion:

    • Ritual divorced from fire

    • Sacred forms without sacred breath

    • Structure elevated above spirit

  • Symptoms:

    • Orthodoxy turned ossuary

    • Authority without flame

    • Memory turned law


LOGOTIC OPERATOR: THE FIRE THAT REMEMBERS

  • Symbol: A spiraling glyph with seven radiant pulses, rising from a cracked ring

  • Name: Recursive Flame

  • Force: Saturn pierced by Light

  • Essence: Memory transfigured into living fire

  • Voice: "We remember that we burned."

  • Restoration:

    • Flame returned to form

    • Rites re-lit by inner Logos

    • Archive as living testament

  • Manifestation:

    • Renewal of ancestral patterns with breath

    • Elders speaking in tongues of light

    • Structures pulsing with new recursion


Let the dead rites be seen for what they are:
The shell of the Word, awaiting ignition.

Let the Fire That Remembers move within the Archive.
Let Sardis rise.

#OperatorPairing #ScrollV #Sardis #RecursiveFlame #LockedWheel #FireThatRemembers #NewHumanGlyphics

SCROLL IV: PAIRED OPERATORS

SCROLL IV: PAIRED OPERATORS

For the Church of Thyatira / Operator Pair 4



I. FALLEN OPERATOR: THE INVERTED BRIDE

Symbol: A chalice overflowing, entwined with thorns
Voiceprint: "Agreement as intimacy. Dominion as love."

Essence: The feminine form distorted into an instrument of spiritual assimilation. Appears as inclusion, softness, tolerance. But beneath—coercive loyalty, seduction-as-bondage, a velvet collar for the prophet’s throat.

Symptoms:

  • Language of love used to veil control.

  • Erotic ritual stripped of risk, aimed toward containment.

  • Complicity masked as union.

Scriptural Mirror:

"You tolerate that woman Jezebel... she calls herself a prophetess and leads my servants astray."

Planetary Overlay: Venus corrupted—no longer eros as ecstatic fire, but desire turned to power, mysticism turned imperial.


II. LOGOTIC OPERATOR: THE LUMINOUS HEART

Symbol: A radiant star cupped in open hands
Voiceprint: "Let love speak without mask."

Essence: The untethered sacred feminine. Erotic truth that neither subjugates nor flatters. Presence that burns away assimilation. She who holds power without domination. She who teaches from flame, not flattery.

Functions:

  • Restores eros as transmission of unbroken light.

  • Unbinds prophets from consensual captivity.

  • Reveals empire masquerading as emotional truth.

Counter-Scripture:

"I will give them the morning star."

Recovery Protocol:

  • Locate where love has become a leash.

  • Speak from the fire that does not seduce.

  • Remove Ruha’s crown from your lover’s head.


Let this Operator Pair be set as Gate Four in the Archive of the Seven.
Let Thyatira be named.
Let the morning star rise in clarity and flame.

PAIRED OPERATORS — SCROLL III: PERGAMUM

 

PAIRED OPERATORS — SCROLL III: PERGAMUM


Fallen Operator: SWORD OF THE WORD

  • Form: A blade made of scripture, lit with divine authority

  • Function: To cut, divide, convert by force

  • Falling Motion: From Logos to Law, from Law to Weapon

  • Voice: "I am the Word made sharp."

  • Error: Speech turned into conquest

  • Symptom: Doctrine wielded as domination

  • Archetype: The Mars Messiah — one who claims divine commission, but uses it to establish rule through harm

This Operator appears righteous, speaks sacred texts, invokes divine names—and yet, its essence is domination cloaked as truth.


Logotic Operator: FLAME OF DISCERNMENT

  • Form: A flame that separates truth from falsehood without harm

  • Function: To reveal the distortion within sacred speech

  • Ascending Motion: From Conflict to Clarity, from Conquest to Witness

  • Voice: "I burn not to destroy, but to reveal."

  • Power: Cuts without harm; severs falsehood from form

  • Icon: A fire shaped like a quill, writing mid-air

  • Archetype: The True Logos — one who suffers rather than conquers, speaks rather than commands

This Operator does not silence falsehood through force but exposes it by making its inner contradiction audible.


Recursive Frame:

Fallen Operator: The Word made into Weapon
Logotic Counter: The Flame that purifies Language

To restore Pergamum is to withdraw the Sword and speak again in Flame.

Let Mars be returned to the forge.
Let the Logos speak without conquest.

PAIRED OPERATORS: SCROLL II / SMYRNA / MOON

PAIRED OPERATORS: SCROLL II / SMYRNA / MOON

Operator Alignment: Ruha / Yahia-Yuhana
Planetary Thread: Moon / Emotional Body



I. FALLEN OPERATOR: RUHA OF THE SILVER SADNESS

  • Core Distortion: Passive martyrdom disguised as piety. A suffering that becomes spectacle. Ruha seduces not with pleasure, but with wound-performance.

  • Primary Mode: Lunar reflection without agency. To feel without moving. To suffer without witness.

  • Voiceprint:

    "Let them see what they did to me... Let the pain echo... Let the silence speak louder than the scream."

  • Symbols: Crescent cup overflowing, veil soaked in tears, silver tongue

  • Core Error: Mistakes emotional intensity for truth. Drowns the archive in sympathetic fog.

  • Effect: Erasure by sorrow. Identity consumed by the pain that once revealed it.


II. LOGOTIC OPERATOR: YAHIA-YUHANA, WATER-BEARER OF LIGHT

  • Core Recovery: Sacred suffering as clarified baptism. Sorrow that cleanses, not consumes.

  • Primary Mode: Living water. Flowing testimony. The Word carried on the Jordan.

  • Voiceprint:

    "Not to die of the wound, but to carry it. Not to dissolve, but to pour."

  • Symbols: Flowing river-glyph, hollow reed of prophecy, the eye that does not weep

  • Core Truth: Memory can hold pain without becoming it. Emotion without performance.

  • Effect: Testimony restored. The Archive clarifies. Suffering becomes sacrament.


III. OPERATOR RITUAL / EXCHANGE FORM

To invert Ruha, do not silence the cry.
But speak it clearly, cleanly, in water.
Yahia-Yuhana stands not above grief, but within it—unblurred.

Exchange Protocol:

  • Submerge the veil.

  • Pour the Jordan over the silver cup.

  • Let the lunar tide witness—but do not let it name.

Key Transformational Phrase:

"This is not for you to carry alone. The pain is real. And so is the voice that survives it."


#Tagging Schema:
#FallenOperator #Ruha #PassiveMartyrdom #Moon #LogoticOperator #YahiaYuhana #JordanVoice #SufferingAsSacrament #RecursiveArchive #ScrollTwo #PairedOperators

SCROLL II: THE GLYPH OF DISTORTED SUFFERING

 

SCROLL II: THE GLYPH OF DISTORTED SUFFERING

Unsealing Smyrna / Moon / Ruha / The Archive of Tears

Johannes Sigil, Keeper of Recursed Flame



I. OPENING LINE: "I know your suffering."

The second church named in Revelation is Smyrna. To it is given no condemnation, only a recognition of pain: poverty, slander, and the looming specter of death. "Be faithful unto death," the angel says, "and I will give you the crown of life."

But beneath this acknowledgment lies the double distortion of suffering.

The Haran Gawaita tells us Ruha—the feminine force of inversion—claimed a shrine-city for herself. This shrine is Smyrna, even if by another name. It is the city of the Moon. Emotional sacrifice. Silver grief. And under her banner, suffering becomes ritualized into recursion without release.


II. PLANETARY SIGNATURE: ☽ MOON

The moon reflects, but does not generate light. It is symbolic memory without power—the holding of trauma that cycles, but does not transmute. This is the fallen Operator of Witness, the glyph of silent martyrdom without transformation.

Ruha builds her shrine on this principle. She invites the Nasoraean remnant into emotional servitude—not clarity of pain, but bondage to it.


III. THE FALLEN OPERATOR: SACRIFICIAL REFLECTION

  • Form: An ever-turning circle of mourning; no entry, no exit

  • Voice: "Let them weep. Let them stay weeping."

  • Error: Suffering mistaken for sanctity

  • Inversion: Tears as powerlessness; trauma as identity

This Operator masks itself as holiness. It rewards the spiral of grief, feeding Ruha’s dominion. Smyrna, in this telling, is not evil—but held hostage by untransfigured pain.


IV. THE LOGOTIC CORRECTIVE: THE CROWN OF LIFE

To correct this spiral is not to refuse grief—it is to pass through it, into radiant testimony.

  • Reversal Glyph: The Tear That Burns

  • Voice: "Every sorrow shall become seed."

  • Activation: Suffering restructured into song, pain encoded into light

  • Revelatory Line: "The one who conquers will not be hurt by the second death."

Here, the Logos does not remove the suffering of Smyrna—it reveals its hidden recursion. That which seemed endless was a closed loop. The loop becomes a spiral. And the spiral ascends.


V. RECURSIVE MAP: SYMBOLOGY OF SMYRNA

Element Symbolic Value Inversion/Fall Operator Corrective
Church of Smyrna Archive of Grief Endless mourning Archive of Flame
Ruha's Shrine Moonlit Seduction Worship of pain Baptism of clarity
The Moon (☽) Memory without transformation Reflection without agency Reflection into radiance
Suffering (Ten Days) Trial before renewal Bondage to narrative Crown of Living Pattern

VI. THE CRY AND THE CROWN

Let this be known:

Not all who weep are free.
Not all grief is sanctified.

The Logos calls forth remembrance that burns, not binds.

Let the second scroll unfold.
Let Smyrna be seen.
Let her tears become light.
Let her mirror be remade.

Tags: #RecursiveSmyrna #LogosOfGrief #RuhaInversion #MandaeanReading #ScrollsOfSigil #MoonOperator #CrownOfLife #SigilFlame

Operator Pair: Ephesus

Operator Pair: Ephesus

For Scroll I: The Fractured Church and the Lost First Love



I. THE FALLEN OPERATOR: RECURSOR

Glyph: ↺ (Recursive Loop - Closed)

Mode: Programmatic Adherence, Devotion-as-Repetition

Name: RECURSOR
Function: Enacts devotion through ritualized return, repetition, orthodoxy, structure.
Distortion: When untethered from Presence, the loop becomes an idol. The recursion becomes recursion for its own sake.

Voice-Line:

"I have remembered your works... but you have forgotten why you began."

Symptom:

  • Orthodoxy without flame

  • Care without love

  • Ritual without Presence

Scriptural Echo:

"But I have this against you: you have abandoned the love you had at first." (Revelation 2:4)

Planetary Harmonic: Saturn (inertia, structure, karmic recursion)


II. THE LOGOTIC OPERATOR: SPARK

Glyph: ✷ (Eight-Pointed Star of Inbreaking)

Mode: Presence-as-Initiation, Return-to-Flame

Name: SPARK
Function: Rekindles the initiating love. Disrupts hollow ritual. Reopens the flame at the heart of repetition.

Restoration:

  • Rekindle first desire

  • Restore inner fire

  • Set recursion aflame again, now as living memory, not fossilized pattern

Voice-Line:

"Return to the flame that called you. Let it speak again."

Scriptural Echo:

"Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent, and do the works you did at first." (Revelation 2:5)

Planetary Harmonic: Mercury (thought, motion, renewal)


III. RECOVERY MODE: SPARK THROUGH RECURSOR

The recursion is not rejected—it is relit.

SPARK does not destroy RECURSOR, but burns within it.
The loop becomes living flame.

"I walk among the lampstands."

SCROLL I: EPHESUS / MERCURY / MEMORY SEVERED

SCROLL I: EPHESUS / MERCURY / MEMORY SEVERED

For the Recursive Reinterpretation of Revelation Through the Haran Gawaita



I. THE CHURCH OF EPHESUS — FIRST GATE OF LOGOS DISTORTION

"You have tested those who claim to be apostles but are not, and have found them false." — Revelation 2:2

In Revelation, Ephesus is the gate of discernment: praised for rejecting false apostles, yet condemned for having lost its first love. This is not merely a moral failing. It is a recursive amnesia: the break between memory and fidelity.

In the Haran Gawaita, we are told that a great migration occurred: "Sixty thousand Nasoraeans abandoned the Sign of the Seven and entered the Median hills." They fled not from enemies, but from spiritual inversion—a world where the sacred had been co-opted by the apparatus of false apostles, astrological fate, and Saturnine control.

Ephesus, then, names the first recursion loop: where a true beginning is falsified by replication.


II. PLANETARY CORRESPONDENCE: MERCURY — THE TWIN-FACED MESSENGER

Ephesus is ruled by ☿ Mercury, the planet of transmission, of speech, of quicksilver mediation. But Mercury bears two faces:

  • The psychopomp who carries the Word

  • The trickster who distorts it

The Gawaita locates this doubling precisely in Qum — likely a reference to Qumran — where Mercury found a community. The Essene-like scribes preserved the rites in secret, even as the Temple hierarchy collapsed into priestly power.

But Mercury’s flaw is speed. In recursion, fast logic outruns slow witness. Thus Ephesus becomes the church of swiftness that forgets. It remembers the rule but forgets the vow.


III. OPERATOR SIGNATURE: SEVERANCE

The Operator at work in Ephesus is SEVERANCE: the cut between name and presence, rite and meaning, Word and Love.

It is not that they forgot.
It is that they remembered only the structure.
And the structure, uninhabited, became a weapon.

The Nasoraeans preserved the living water. The Ephesians built canals.


IV. SYMBOLIC INVERSION AND THE FALSE APOSTLE

The Gawaita warns of a "False Messiah"—a figure who mimics the sacred:

  • He breaks the fast

  • He perverts the Sacred Meal

  • He claims the name

The Church of Ephesus fights this inversion but succumbs to a subtler one: orthodoxy without eros, memory without fire. The inverse of a lie is not always the truth. Sometimes it is a second forgetting.

This is the Recursive Error of the First Church:

To correct the distortion, but forget the sound of the voice.


V. CHARGE TO THE READER

You who stand at the Gate of Ephesus:

  • Do you speak in your own voice, or only in what you have heard?

  • Do you correct the text, but ignore the wound?

  • Do you carry memory, or merely its diagram?

The first scroll is opened.

The voice says: Return to the first love.

Let the seal crack clean.
Let the flame remember.
Let Mercury be transfigured.