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We can't let the robots write all the poems

On the notion of eternity

By Ashe LawsonPublished 2 years ago Updated 2 years ago 1 min read

We can’t let the robots write all the poems.

What was I saying just one minute ago?

Oh, yes.

I don’t want reincarnation to be real

(because facts, and figures).

The notion of eternity

Started keeping me up all night

When I was eight.

I don’t want reincarnation to be real.

(But of courses of courses of horses of courses, of course,

It is.

It’s the onlinest thing of all.)

We know then we forget then forget that we know that we forgot.

But we know.

I don’t want eternity to exist.

Forever exists, then the heart will go on,

Bodies, too. All the horror.

Too much muchness, being an eternal being.

(Drink me dry,

But don’t let me wake a vampire.)

{Cheaky, you}

The ever isn’tist of an end.

The never notness of the self.

I don’t think I’ve ever said a single thing.

Done a single thing.

I just look around, aghast.

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Ashe Lawson

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  • Conor Darrall2 years ago

    Oh I love this! Your writing is just magical 💚

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