STATUS REPORT

The ship is on fire and it’s sinking but
The ocean will put out the flames and there’s
No danger of collateral damage

The whole crew’s going down to the abyss
Fortunately, the crew is just me

COMORBIDITIES AS

As this disease is logistical, clustered
In the warehouse of the body
Where the index of impending demise vacillates
Like the price of gold
Inside a bullion exchange

As when I don’t want to look at the world
The way it actually is, addicts
Sprawled in sunshine but the cold
Doing its harsh work

As for the psyche guarded in its attendant neurons
When the self is sold off altogether, a kind
Of emotional land assembly;
The private equivalent of the fourth estate, like
Its sociopolitical counterpart, already
Bartered away, left
To the schemes of the most
Depraved, in us
Or outside us, the same mirror of incest
Purified to putrefaction

As like the rotting fruit in Eden where
The burning seraphim stood by in rigid sentry

As microplastics polluting
Fresh and salt water equally and
The prevalence of these
Offering our scientists a gauge for oozing exposure;
Toxicity like heat
A relativistic value so, as the former
Increases, what once
Felt toxic doesn’t anymore

As the horrors spring up, dense like pox

As our strobilation produces lifeless clones to feed
The surgeon’s hideous knife:
Nana-san-ichi Butai, Nana-san-ichi Butai

As the river turns black and oily
With the charred segments of the immolated dead;
We still find the faces of friends and family
Churning in the tainted waters,
Slackened-jaws gaping
In spinning relation to lifeless eyes, white
But empty, like the holes almost
Of a bowling ball

As the sound of multiple songbirds hitting glass
Interrupts actuarial serfs
In their dreary office cubicles; not
Entirely dead, the prey
Inside the python, exhausted

As age is visible in one’s own hands, the firm and beautiful
Imperceptibly ruined over soft decades;
A cheap kind of clay
Squished by childish designs

As it goes on, all of it, the bill increasing;
Larger and larger, swelling
Until it becomes truly unpayable

SELF.EXE

C:\ LIFE \ cd knowledge

C:\ KNOWLEDGE \ self

‘self’ is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

C:\ KNOWLEDGE \ dir/w

[ . ] [ . . ] [AIMS] [DESIRES]
[FACTS] [IDEAS] [IDENTITY] [MEMORIES]
[PEOPLE] [QUESTIONS] [SCHEDULE] [TASKS]
CONCERNS.BAT INSTINCTS.BAT MIND.SYS PROCRASTINATION.TXT
SLEEP.BAT WHY.EXE YOU.TXT

C:\ KNOWLEDGE \ identity

C:\ KNOWLEDGE \ IDENTITY \ self

‘self’ is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

C:\ KNOWLEDGE \ IDENTITY \ dir/w

[ . ] [ . . ] [ME] [PERSONA]
DOUBT.SYS HISTORY.TXT PRIVACY.BAT SECRETS.TXT
REFLECTION.EXE UNKNOWNS.TXT

C:\ KNOWLEDGE \ IDENTITY \ me

C:\ KNOWLEDGE \ IDENTITY \ ME\ dir/w

[ . ] [ . . ] SELF.EXE SELFAWARE.TXT

C:\ KNOWLEDGE \ IDENTITY \ ME\ self

‘self’ cannot be run because the program is already running. If you wish to run the program, please terminate the program before continuing.

C:\ KNOWLEDGE \ IDENTITY \ ME\ selfaware

Current date is Mon 10-16-2023
Enter new date:
Current time is 18 : 44 : 49
Enter new time:

The person that is you SOS (Sentient Operating System)
Version 1.38 Without (C) Copyright EARTH Corp 4.54 Ga, Universe 13.8 Ga

Self and its related concepts are aspects of the actually authentic condition of an individually existing being that, in this case, has human and other characteristics. Conditional to a sense of one’s own identity is a distinction of self that, like other perceptions, is neither inherently true nor false. Rather, self is a surface category of reflection properly invoked as a heuristic means for expressing valid distinctions. Because of this though there is no “authentic” self to find or activate; the real self is pervasive in all states and conditions, it being nothing more than what is essential at any given moment. Which is why those in the lineage of Bodhidharma have achieved success here by not only detaching from the extraneous and superfluous but then detaching from even that preoccupation with detachment. Self, when it is recognized as the immutably essential, ceases to be a concern and the authenticity that follows this realization is a new satisfaction and imperturbability independent of external conditions. In other words, enlightenment.

C:\ KNOWLEDGE \ IDENTITY \ ME\ cd desires

C:\ KNOWLEDGE \ DESIRES \ distraction

Running distraction.exe. Note that the time wasted here is not recoverable. You are getting older with every passing second. Soon it’ll be too late.