it matters nothing that the screen is blank
it matters nothing that the screen is filled
the flow of words, the stream of consciousness:
do these matter? what matter? what meaning
to find in these ancient letters – magic
that we scribble thus and it causes us
to hallucinate in a predictable
pattern we call reason or logic. yet
reality abides not our fantasies.
concrete is concrete – abstraction remains
immaterial, conceptual, un-
real. it matters nothing that the unreal
mimics reality, for it is not
real. it matters nothing but for the real.

dmpitchford 12/02/23