The Infinite Kinks
The infinite kinks of beginning
and on into the middle
and straight through to the end
and beyond that, of course,
for quite a length of forever,
which gradually becomes always
until suddenly it’s perpetually and perpetually
for so, monotonous long
that it might as well be
interminably, which it is, until it’s not
and it’s found to have been never,
really never, which is O,
so much longer.
Medical Opinion
In order to
slow your-
self down
it is not
only
the body
that must
move
slow —
and yes, the body
must
move
very
slow — not
only the
pacing
of the
entire
organism — which
is
difficult, difficult
because one
organism
is connected
to every
other
organism —
What
does that
mean?
What
do you
think
it means?
At what
pace
do you think
you are
expected
to
go? How
quickly
do you
assume
it should
take you
to
get there?
Your hand
reaching
for
an orange, your finger
making
a
keystroke, your legs
carrying
you
to the
store?
The work
you do?
Situationally,
there are
expectations,
and
they can’t
just
be
shrugged off. Well,
I don’t
know. If
you can,
the
problem
remains, the body
itself
slowed, it is
the weight
of
everyone,
the
speed
of life
in which
you must
slow — and
most difficult
of all, if
you can
somehow
lower
the body
beneath
the
hyperventilation
of
standard
demand, your own
and theirs
it is,
then
the things
as they are
accustomed
to being
used, touched,
passed,
torn,
placed —
the things
that place
you
exactly
where you
are, those
things, the things
themselves
must
be convinced
to
accommodate
a pace
to which
they are
at present,
unaccustomed
to being
used. They will
want
to be
used
as they
always
have been — this
is the
identity
of things.
If
you can
slow
the jet
passing
overhead
and
the
tempo
of the
air,
you never
know.
Sacha Archer is a Canadian writer and concrete poet. Publications include Empty Building (Penteract Press), Mother’s Milk (Timglaset), KIM (knife|fork|book), Hydes (nOIR:Z), Jung Origami (Enneract Editions) and Immortality (Viktlösheten). His latest work, cellsea, recently debuted from Timglaset. More: Facebook @sachaarcher + Instagram @sachaarcher