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Portrait of Your Suffering (ambient​/​guided meditation concerning suicide version)

from Conglomerative Work by JB Vliet by JB Vliet

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Nobody is going to hurt you anymore.

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(read upside down/backwards besides title)

Portrait of Your Suffering

“A hallelujah songs plays in the bathroom-
I hear the sound of my pee hitting the water and
Mentally weep. This
causes me to think about the sound of a tear drop
landing in the ocean. I see a big face not smiling. ”

A universe face hovers
below the great
alien ocean/ while
I, some speck in the known brine,
am, and feel, among many other things,
the breath of a remote star:
open your mouth during winter
to see a living analog of this.

With these divisions I find
we are composed
in facets: a smile:
a representation of nothing,
a circle:
a representation of a smile.

and tears
are not above the law as follows.
they will always take the shortest route home
because they are droplets caused by your greater sadness.

they land on the land (the ground closest to you)
and fall along another’s hypotenuse.
/| optimize traveling down.
All destination is equal.

and this universe face wants to frown:
having petitioned all living things from zygotes
to a dead or living virus, to sleeping or the half-woke
who have seen themselves upside down- but never flipped over:

I have found Paradise is a compound- or a sphere-
and with this division I find
we are composed
in facets.

A sphere is more advanced and more defined than a circle-
follow this law to learn of emotional impossibility- and learn
about the ambiguity of cause:
do you remember this line-
“they will always take the shortest route home
because ___________________________________________?”

A universe face can fill the blank with anything. All the while
You and I, moreover, in the hands of each other,
are composed in facets. We kill each other.
We die in the palms of the other:
The hand has led all great beings to their greatest moments /

It is no coincidence that suicide
is another type of handwork, it is
a belief in diminished symbols- a lack of faith
in representative composure.

As for those with enough courage, you are
less likely to survive / Intelligence comes with
a more advanced form of beatitude. Go, make an emblem
so simple it is impossibly ugly. It could save your life /
and forget about it: let your god rest,
you do not need any more reminders.

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from Conglomerative Work by JB Vliet, released January 27, 2014

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