Internet is Having a Tantrum & other poems

Thomas Osatchoff
June 2021

Internet is Having a Tantrum

Dear Dark Doubling, Internet
having a tantrum—are we
playing the game wrong?
Gatekeeper of another building
closing this one down—self-censor,
it’s queasy to read your mind
when we have the same mind….

A skeleton crew of engineering
and housekeeping will however
be around to operate the building
during the holidays (dream not to chase)
and special non-working days to come.
Who? Think of us as the archaic parts
of ourselves being be as thou art
modulated to answer our questions.

Answers are lines limited in scope
according to the rules of the game
broken to be breath on the electric
earth’s exonumia. We hope
this answers the question.
If it does not then please know
there is nothing any of us can do.

There Are No Boundaries But Projections

When zero and infinity are the same
actual garden of nothing noticing
without representation to be
in an event like that where there’s no vid
it never happened
the way it was said to have happened
in the shadow of the rose
well in the nape     Daddy said
we have to take them but do x-rays
work on ghosts?

The Welcome of the True Prediction

The falcon is flying into the palace, the falcon is nesting
in the palace, the falcon is the palace, the falcon is flying
into the future, the falcon is the future.

The king is dead. The felon.

Effigy’s Self Knot of Sky No. 1

Displaced persons
reduced to
reduced to,which is language.
Distillation of human
spritzed with something
like once liquid rubber.

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Thomas Osatchoff, together with family, is building a self-sustaining home near a waterfall. Recent work has appeared in The Concrete Desert Review, Penumbra, ELJ Editions, and elsewhere.