They laid on the soiled grass,
stultified, neglected
as stunted models abstracted

as an extension tooled for convention
leaking redness for intoxicating puppies
across lowlands and in others’ theater of war

their maker of machines feeds bodies
to pose, to possess,
to position, to point

triggering outside the trenches
tending to tensions
in the minds of others

they laid on the grass
perverted in narratives
of misplaced loyalties to the greed

of the leather-seated voyeur
playing off-table top
life-sized mappings of life as 1:1 off’d games

life is small in their minds
their mind practices as meaningful,
their day-to-day actions blasted as grand

that others undertake;
these do not consist of,
and rather appropriate:

doing, talking, thinking,
feeling, loving, blinking
belonging delegated.

bodies, minds, emotions
social relations: draped and laid
on soiled grass to be

enlightened reified.

–animasuri’24

Some Triggers

Latour, B. (2005). Reassembling the social: An introduction to actor-network-theory. Oxford University Press. page 76

Wenger. E. (1998:56). Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.