reflecting absence

Reflecting Absence

 

 

 

Passing from anticipation to boredom to fascination

 

working from awkwardness and positioning accordingly

 

the art in reflecting absence, in going where you’ve never been

 

where no one has. suicide is generally good for sales

 

but everyone knows that’s not why she left

 

 

 

the technique works because we seek out the one flaw

 

in a sea of otherwise perfection. capturing life in frozen stillness

 

stand transfixed in the process until completed

 

A freak stops you and asks you a riddle

 

as you float like a spirit through this dream-nightmare

 

 

 

we lose sleep fretting about the horror

 

but the freak has already faced his

 

carries the airs of an aristocrat

 

madness and genius know, get just the same

 

no one else comprehends the language you speak

 

 

 

what will be left when everything is stripped away

 

what is absorbed when you aren’t looking. it is

 

what seeps through walls and pores and consciousness 

 

stare into the lens. It is Everything. I’ve seen so much

 

the only thing I really know is that I don’t know