While a society without a ship
is a repressive one; inwardly—
a society of ships; outwardly—
onboards and offshores subjugation
as the observed is the altered by the observer
navigating focal points to a singular beam
through a looking glass onto the ant; crispy
shipping memes of hard alloys, the Kraken and creaking of wood bent and flammable, tarred.
surrounding panopticons
entitled as bridges ironically uncrossable
around extremities of cargo-bays as cleavage of holding what one holds dear
places for the other, placing the other
in their segregated spaces, as book-bound
taking oneself as the other
oppressing their segregated faces
then there afloat the male surgeon
visits the female body
slicingly increasing complications and departure, shipping off the context of what it means to be humanly humane.
—animasuri’21