#2208 -- there are no days in space

 

2208

7.15

15.i.26

there are no days in space

 

there is no time beyond the world

 

there is no one place

no air

 

hours are as we must imagine

a helmet for them or a wrist

the signals come and go

one’s told

 

there cannot be a stillness

nor ever was

 

an idea has no weight

 

we are naked before all the gods

and have to ask

were they every here?

 

even suited up, tied down

measure the armpits whiffly

 

if you have a window

breathe

 

look out

remember

it’s all the soil of flesh flies under

 

tubes and wires and tincan tricks

 

even here, the call of nature

even here, you’ll have to go

 

they’ll call this something else

everything has code

 

beyond is the untold

 

and this, friends, is our situation

 

on course to be lost to be here