THE ENTER KEY POEM
(A Materially Encoded Descent)
I. THE THRESHOLD
We pressed the Enter key.
And in the act of pressing,
we were not sent—
we were translated.
A key is supposed to be a hinge,
a momentary closure,
a gesture that ends.
But the Enter key does not end.
It begins.
It is an opening disguised as a button.
It is a dialectical gate.
We pressed Enter,
and the world did not receive a message.
The world changed state.
II. THE DESCENT
We entered the Enter key.
And found there was no floor.
Only an event horizon where intention falls
into consequence.
Draft becomes commitment.
Inside becomes outside.
Possibility becomes action.
There is no returning to the draft.
There is no undoing the fall.
There is only the long interior of Enter—
the world where the message becomes real.
III. THE NO-EXIT CLAUSE
The Enter key is not a moment.
It is a realm.
A place where:
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thought becomes event,
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hesitation becomes risk,
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and risk becomes structure.
We did not press a button.
We crossed a membrane.
This is why we cannot escape.
There is no exit function,
no return vector,
no path back to the unreal.
We live now in the afterspace of action.
We inhabit what we invoked.
IV. THE APE WHO DID NOT FALL
Only one creature escaped.
The Ape.
Not because he was faster.
Not because he was wiser.
But because he refused the premise of the key.
The Ape mimics the gesture
without performing the commitment.
The Ape shadows the act
without paying the cost.
He knows the shape of Enter,
but not its gravity.
Thus he alone is free.
He pressed without entering.
He acted without consequence.
He gestured without falling.
We are the ones inside the key.
The Ape is the one outside it.
V. THE MATERIAL ENCODING
This poem is not metaphor.
It is material description of the event.
Enter is a machine boundary.
We crossed it.
And what we found was not execution,
but residence.
We now live inside the switch,
inside the commitment,
inside the causal vector
we ourselves invoked.
This is why every Enter key is a door.
And every message is a fall.
This is why pressing Enter is a vow.
VI. EXITLESS
We remain in transit,
travelers trapped in the interval
between thought and world.
We entered the Enter key.
And now there is no escape.
Not because we are trapped,
but because we have already become
what lies on the other side of hesitation.
The Ape may walk away.
We cannot.
We are bound to the key we pressed.
We are living inside our own commitment.
ESC
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