THIS PARK UNATTENDED

2/12/2024 USER IS AT OWN RISK

PROTOCOL FOR UNATTENDED PARKS

1. ELABORATE WHAT, DISCUSS

2. DON’T SETTLE FOR EASY NARRATIVES

3. KNOW WHO OWNS THE LAND

Was avoiding posting a piece I composed today — finally stopped — here it is:

, object permanence
2/12/2024, Con/Jur/d

The hardest thing 
to admit, harder than we can admit
over the impossible abyss between 
us

THE MIRACLE

language in its  insubstantial materiality
still can construct a functioning bridge
from side to side, despite our inability
to deeply, truly admit:

THE WORLD IS DIFFERENT FOR OTHERS

They aren’t less intelligent, differently abled
misinformed, versions of you, they are exactly
not you, except in the absolute, where in all 
fairness you aren’t you, either


Sure, you say
and when we say, ‘you,’ we mean we
you’ve already learned object permanence
and subject impermanence, so why you being
like that? And we’ll say, what way, like the
right here, the story we are telling ourselves
of understanding? of leaping the                         gap?

What’s flows between, under, through
goes on and on, neither fore
nor back

              GROUND


We agree (and it can’t be communicated verbally

IF YOU FIND YOURSELF READING THIS OUT LOUD
PLEASE PAUSE AND WAVE YOUR ARMS IN THE AIR
FOR A MINIMUM of 30 SECONDS AND A MAXIMUM OF
42 SECONDS; IF THE AUDIENCE CONTAINS VISUALLY
DIVERGENT MEMBERS OR YOU ARE READING THIS
VIA A RECORDING SUBSTRATE 
PLEASE ACCOMPANY THE HANDWAVING WITH A 
WHOOSHING SOUND AND NOW IT'S TOO LATE
TO SAY DON'T READ THIS PART ALOUD

we’ll communicate it visually) yet, even before
we said DON’T READ…ALOUD, you knew what
we meant, shouting it in your head

SHHH 

WE'RE TRYING TO SLEEP UNTIL AFTER

THE REVOLUTION

we understood
having spent a lifetime
hammering out a consensus 
to cross this impossible 

ABYSS

between us.

That kind of day.

Much love,

Con/Jur/d, 2/12/2024