“do you teach with epistemic care
or with a bricklayers’ balance of crushing
that ant irritating the road laid for us”

Afsana asked. Without asking.

“can you corroborate,
validate and make your skeptical objection
reliable, reproducable and falsifiable”

“could you offer a reasonable rationalization,
preferably using a formal logic form”

“can you add poetics, without being ex-communicated,
reforming the fringes into the mean median mode”

she continued in a calm, measured vocalization
while upholding a decorum.

Afsana was not loud. She was strong.

becoming of a queen bee
once leading a nation, once mighty,
once there was

there was no question mark
noticeable in her voice

intentionally absent
with intentionality throughout

some questions are statements
sharp as a laser
grafting the insides of a diamond

knowledge shall
no longer be the same
now that Afsana is here to stay.


—animasuri’24




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trigger

Høffding, S., Martiny, K., & Roepstorff, A. (2022). Can we trust the phenomenological interview? Metaphysical, epistemological, and methodological objections.
Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 21(1), 33–51. p. 34 https://lnkd.in/gBhtsVtM