vivianimbriotis | Oct. 28, 2021, 1:50 p.m.
Behold! The Demogorgon approaches!
A beast of steel and asbestos with tiny windows for eyes!
It has a voracious appetite, consuming a diet only
of white stickers filled with numbers and barcodes and names!
A beast incapable of telling a mistruth yet it somehow speaks a million lies!
It has a hard exterior, but is hollow inside, containing only
Forms of every color, tubes of every bodily fluid, boxes of hidden shames!
The Demogorgon! In come healers, and out come trembling cynics!
The Demogorgon! White halogen light bleeds from between its dusty lips!
It speaks in obscure pseudolatin and condemns the luddite.
It wakes at six in the morning but sleeps only fitfully come the night.
Mid-twenties lost cause.
Trapped in a shrinking cube.
Bounded on the whimsy on the left and analysis on the right.
Bounded by mathematics behind me and medicine in front of me.
Bounded by words above me and raw logic below.
Will be satisfied when I have a fairytale romance, literally save the entire world, and write the perfect koan.