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Reviewing and Reviving
Original:
It’s been a while since I’ve heard such words used to describe my interior and exteriors. Most visitors on this side are silent, reflective; these are analytical and there are lots of them. I do not resent visitation, even if only because doing so is futile. But I am a development in and of myself, only an abstraction of human will with the tools of nature at their disposal. I act, I react, I will myself into a tame type of exhibit for their primordial senses. I exist as an example to this tiny collection, but my essence comes from clouds and oceans. I know what salt water tastes like; I know what it is like to rush down a cliff with all the force of physics behind me. I know chemicals; I am not unsoiled. I know it in collection; I know it as every raindrop knows the endless cycle of repetition that water follows.
Nomilazation, a la Andrew Goatley:
Descriptions of interiors and exteriors are created.
Silence descends from past visitors;
analysis ascends from current ones.
No resentment of visitation from me, as resistance is futile.
Existence is a development of nature’s tools and human will.
Action, Reaction, I do.
For human primordial senses, willing action occurs in me.
Existence of me as example for them;
Existence of me for me originates in clouds and oceans.
Sat water tastes are known.
Chemicals are known, unsoiledness is not.
Knowledge exists in collection; knowledge exists in water’s endless cycle.