Original DDE™ surrealistic art: “Monovision” by: rob kistner © 3/19/24
U nfurling linearity
accumulating into the future
tethered to a uniform past
paralyzed in the now
over and over
repeating in my head
these same odd words
this same strange vision
a visual drone
over and over
unfurling linearity
accumulating into the future
tethered to a uniform past
paralyzed in the now
always the same fevered dream
this inflexible fear
I am fallen paralyzed
unable to lift my head
then I see coming
ever coming
falling slowly
out of the mist
drifting down
always coming
menacingly
unsmiling
faces
coming down
I want to rise up
run at them
scream at them
shake them
but I cannot
I cannot
then a low drone
a haunting chorus of voices
I’m going
going mad I think
then I scream out
in my smothering nightmare
“I’m going mad
absolutely mad!”
suddenly
in voiced unison
“yes Asimo
you are going mad”
“Asimo” I shout back
“my name is not Asimo”
then comes again
the unified voice
a disembodied voice
“oh, but we are all Asimo now”
“no” I cry out
“please go away
leave me alone
what do you want!”
“want?
why — you Asimo…
we want you”
“I think you’re all crazy”
in my dream
my head’s tilted back
angrily shouting
“no no Asimo, you are — thinking?
there’s no thinking —
just being comfortably tethered…
tethered to our uniform past
safe in our rigid now
unfurling into our linear future”
I am shuddering as I awaken
sweating
terrified
then, suddenly startled
I hear it
yes
in the distance
an unmistakable
low droning
unintelligible unified voices
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rob kistner © 2024
Poetry at: dVerse