in verse:
		nothing lasts for long -- all passages are indelible
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		everything is recorded -- like flowers in timelapse
		everything leaves a trail in spacetime
		a lighted match waved

		to understand
		at all any small bit of anything
		any chunked bit of bits
		anything yes anything at all
		one could look at it like so

		this here is a path
		of an animal passing
		some time ago
		and this broken twig means this and that
		and this scat is his or what
		and that bit of scent was only hers or maybe not

		everything is hiking

		from writing poems
		do designing dashboards
		to fighting

		and the mathematics of tomorrow simply said
		will be: ever getting smarter about running things back
		running passages inside out
		t-shirts dresses outcomes

		must hurry
		because nothing lasts for long
		and though all passages are indelible
		an inverse is locally computable
		only if the question asked is an easy question:

		what just happened
		what happened not long ago

		every thing is a dying tremor of
		a smudge a grudge a social condition
		of some song
		every rain is a new rain
		but even so
		things get irretrievable

		every liquid snapshot is a slice of flow
		every slomo is a supple glide of a wedding train
		first name maiden name

		every path i see
		every (street i) do not enter
		every (i see it) one way only

		is a sign a story a logic how tragic
		that the universe and its math are alive
		even stones hurt
		if one knew how to feel it

		the idea of randomness
		the idea of inert things
		the concept of innocent bystander

		join phlogiston
		aisle 12: seasonal merchandise/plastic toys


			Marek Lugowski
			19 June 1998
			Chicago, Illinois