the [first] Empty Set

ø Ø { } _ THE [first] E/\/\PTY SET {ergo equals ego} = drone of disillusion e[r]go dissolution in abstraction = tablature in ancient clay … abandonment = with indoctrination, … cataclysm = affused in the deep magnetism of acculturation \/ existent baptism of traumatic waves, … ego submersional drowning = the awful rowing toward god Ω /\/\ the awful crawling toward light \/ futile cawing /\ tunnels eroding through language

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e[r]go the first deep breath of air

, … ascendency

wormholes

, … through the eye

of the apple

, … deeper light

ego death caves in from the ceiling

, … shrouding inner darkness

the world is not linear, e[r]go, … neither with language ego the first deep breath of air

, … ascendency , … through the eye , … deeper light , … shrouding inner darkness

of the apple wombholes e[r]go death caves in from the ceiling the world is not linear, = human robots performing necessary functions \/ articulation in absentia ego perpetuate systems of repression incarceration :: with predatory kindness, … human genomic bloom = to understand the depths of one’s own blindness = to imagine what is beyond the blindness of one’s dead light = with blindness, … erosive excavation e[r]go others’ lives through dark tunnels one grain of sand one spoonful of dirt one nugget of deceit blindly tunneling one’s way through love’s entrails mole heart gnawing through the hearts of others

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ego irrelevant populations e[r]go their struggles ego their weeping into decay, … = sempiternal dying within unravelling psychic mobius \/ equinox of the polar selves inversive striation of ego imbalanced id ≠ resurrection of consciousness /\ resurrection of primordial desires /\ mordant jealousies \/ a murder of cro\/\/s = with regeneration, … cataclysm contrition reinforced only within the bowels of suffering = with pestilence, … salvation auto-repression of iconoclastic ritual = iconoclastic repression of auto-ritualization what language is the spring of awareness? what spring brings eternal rains? what wellspring divulgates purpose of Life? what springs forth from genetic intuition? within decomposition, … ulterior universe \/\/hat karmic quest lays \/\/ide open the cry of infanticide transitory regurgitation of lives lost /\ e[r]go into the eyes of Time

beaks of deceit

a murder of cro\/\/s

= {slashiNg

into the eyes of Time

beaks of deceit a murder of cro\/\/s

slashiNg

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~Literature, copyright © 2012 by Michael Annis; all rights reserved.

Photograph, copyright © by Regina Walker; all rights reserved. “the [first] EMPTY SET” published in collaboration with the musical score by Sonologyst, 7/2013 @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuyxkEpoyik Ω this line from poet Anne Sexton

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