SWIM (Someone Who Isn’t Me)/Atman
I.
How long
have you gone
without a word
out loud?
Sleep ----------
doesn’t count.
The brain---------- An hour?
creates A day?
a vivid A switch A week?
landscape, is flicked ----------- Vows of
artistic disabling It’s not silence
interpret- action. easy. --------- Attempts
ations of a theme, Sleep- The conscious can last to know god.
to be dis- walkers mind is a years. Protests
carded like find a way mosaic of for heightened
memories of around it, verbal thoughts, senses…
Burning Man. talkers a hyper-text.
more often.
II.
How long
have you gone
without a word?
A minute?
Five?
Thirty?
It’s not
easy.
Meditation
moves
to