"now trace a breath-map in the air. how invisible?
is a rose a turning cylinder of senses? how unspeakable
is this the ghost of the heart, the actual
the inmost deceleration of its thought? how unspeakable
is everything still speeding around us?"
How many scams must we endure?
These broken pipe-dreams of the rich,
of the breathless entrepreneur,
among their piles of cash they hitch
the risks to us through means obscure.
"She hovers at the window, alert to how the house breathes, exhalations as the front door opens, shudders. She hears movement. Footfalls, creaks, the downstairs kitchen cupboards. House-breaths rattle her apartment door the slightest, ripple. If the house was a body, the hallway and the staircase might be lungs."
What do you want?
Standing in the dark, peering in.
What do you want?
And when confronted, nonchalant,
though pearls of sweat form on your skin,
and shameful conscience stirs within.
What do you want?
"firefighters have been tirelessly protecting
I want to hug them and say thank you
can’t extinguish the fear and anxiety
we live in a different world now."
@joel@poetry rhetorical situation; for example, you wouldn't expect cursing in a eulogy but it's ok at, say, a comedy club. That inspires another kind of economy and rhetorical restriction we don't often recognize.
Dark communication patterns (including advertising patterns) are like dark UI design and are intended to extract something of value from the user (money/data). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_pattern This absolutely has roots in rhetorical theory and manipulative techniques. 2/3