Friday, December 4, 2009

Count / Do Not Count (Trinary Tics)

Count the number of upswings.
Count the awakenings inside dreams or inside other people (which is the same thing).
Count the number of people on buses that look out.
Do not count the number of deaths.
Discount the inevitable deaths of books which are dear to you.
Discount the inevitability of nesting and niching in language (as atavistic).
Discount vanity.
Count vanities.
Do not count grief at the extinction of vanities.
Do not count nor court the inevitable. The inevitabilities.
Discount the inevitable. The inevitabilities are their own language.
Write out the discounting you do of the inevitable at great length.
It is advisible to do such discounting while you are young.
But how to count young?
Discount your own writing in this regard, and do not even count this as humility.
Discount humility as the hooves the dying move on.
Count the number of words the dying say.
Count the number of words the dying are asked.
Try not to laugh after the count.
The dying leave hoof prints you may count.
Count animals much more swiftly than you count humans.
Count the humans within humans, and the animals within humans. Separately.
Discount the overlap of the animal within the human with the human.
Draw a diagram if you need to, to help you count these gray zones.
Count the words in various historical world prayers.
Count the words in various declarations of war.
Count the number of sacred steps required for purification according to these texts.
Count things like brochures from Sex Addicts Anonymous, the Bhagavad Gita and the Tibetan Book of the Dead.
Rush your counting some days.
Slow your counting on other days to a pathologically slow pace.
Never relent with counting.
Relent with counting.
Count no injunction as an absolute--not even the injunction to Die.
Discount the concept of dying.
Discount the concept of talking.
Discount the concept of talking while dying.
Discount everything for one hour.
Count the number of returned messages, signals, ambiguous forms of possible-communication.
Not only yours.
Multiply nothing by nothing.
Count the number of sparrows that keep talking "after death," as one luminous counterexample.
Discount the idea that staying sane is in your best interests for one hour.
Count the number of people in your culture which make sanity a quantifiable, countable "thing."
Don't count the number of extinct species.
Count the number of days that you think matter.
Then count the number of extinct species.
Do not count suicidal thoughts.
Count the number of rungs on a ladder.
Count suicidal thoughts between rungs.
Count the number of ladders.
Count the destinations of the ladders.
Count the number of morally suicidal ladders.
Discount the ladder as an option.
Count the number of pages you have written discounting the ladder.
Count the ladder back in as an option.
Count the number of ladders you are able to climb simultaneously.
Count until you reach the astonishing true number.
Do not count griefs.
Discount the entry ticket.
Discount the similes and metaphors for existence, as opposed to existence itself.
Discount all forms of trickery, especially logic.
Discount all human beings who simulate "being human" through societally-sanctioned programs involving language, behavior, emotion or such...
You are suddenly very lonely, aren't you?
Count the number of years.
Count the number of nanoseconds.
Count the number of years until you think "humans" will return.
Discount the idea that a human ever returns from the "workable concept" of humanity.
Count the number of humans who return from their poems.
Discount the idea of returning from a poem or the "workable concept" of humanity with functionality as tragically-flawed, Romantic and/or bipolar.
Count this as the equivalent of the polar bear in the zoo.
Count this as the equivalent of the regimen of mood-altering drugs the polar bear probably takes (or is made to take).
Count the zoo as a Wittgensteinian grammatical subset of culture.
Count the transparencies which are also wounds.
Discount the poem as a round-trip ticket.
Count the number of your laughs.
Discount the laughs relating to meaning of any sort.
Count the number of a certain type of blood cell.
Count the number of cells which indicate a certain form of dysplasia.
Count this as a clock.
Count the regular inversions of the pyramidal structure of a molecule as a clock.
Count the poem as an anti-clock with Clockist tendencies.
Don't count the number of leaders (don't even look at them).
Don't count the number of followers (ditto).
Count the number of times you have laughed while visiting the Wittgensteinian zoo.
Coun the number of times you have laughed outside meaning, free.
Discount freedom as digusting.
Count the number of times you have despised yourself for discounting freedom as disgusting.
Count the number of examples in which nature makes freedom seem disgusting due to a fatal outcome or fatal outcomes.
Discount nature's intention or morality in doing this.
Discount freedom in embracing joy.
Count the joys which leave a residue.
Count the joys which do not leave a residue.
No longer count freedom as a joy.
Do not count anything.
Are you counting now?
Or are you not counting now?
Certainly you are discounting now.
Don't count the similarities between ratio, ratiocination and rationalization.
Discount the birds and their complaints outside the window.
This means discounting their worries of food, sex or shelter.
Count your worries about food, sex or shelter.
Do you count sex as a worry; i.e. that sex is something which needs shelter?
Discount that food needs shelter.
Do not count your food, sex or shelter today at all.
Discount your joy for a moment.
Do not count the windows in your house and your culture on the same day.
But count the windows in your culture.
Then count the windows in your house.
Count the windows in yourself.
Discount your fear of counting.
Discount your pride of counting.
Do not count fear or pride in human animals.
Do not count cunning in human animals.
Count the cunning in death.
Count the cunning in culture.
Discount the cunning in death.
Do not discount the cunning in culture.
Count the fear of ending in cunning.
Discount the ending of fear in cunning.
Do not count the ones who refuse you shelter in their cunning.
Do not count the ones who refuse the language as shelter.
Do not count the ones who refuse the language as food, as sex.
Discount the cunning of the dying who are counting aloud.
Discount the loud counters.
Count the dead who come running.
Do not discount the dead who do not come running, but come only a little.
Coax the silent counters to stop quilting their silences and begin counting with you.
Count with yourself.
Count to yourself.
Count silently but as though you no longer believed your counting is a clock.
Your counting is not a clock.
You are a clock that doesn't count.

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