The Three Human Kind

This is a negotiation.

I. Pancho’s Untitled Bones

Viewed from below, when sitting--- what speaks, what drove one to do these cows in coils of copper--- bones like drilling squid, a broom these wholes square--- boiled, that metal joke, the way the world is now---- being stripped away into blocks of wood and bones: three bodies--- This is the human being now, being stripped away into copper strips---- the bones of aluminum skin over it, covered is the cow bones and behind--- flaps and taps in chain and chains--- this is the human body now divided into three--- blocks--- life becoming life mechanized, squids a gradation of the materials of life---- wood varnished preserved, holding up boiled bones---- ribs of unfinished metamorphosis, meant--- that coil, broken a hook fraying (from below these three bodies are seen, from below, from inside long, to sit and wait how coils whisper without being touched)--- Three outside (to the right)---- that chipped bone, chipped away like teeth---- found blocks, upheld by blocks, the body to be stripped unto the elements---- both scientific and alchemy.

II. Beth’s Cigarette Asserts

I am smoke.
I can smoke.
I will smoke.

Beth’s cigarette decided to return to the outside after thirteen years--- to escape, to forget---- for her whole world makes her cry.

Outside, this is brushed aside with jokes, with a sigh, with a shrug and hands up--- a laugh, “Ah! The Filipino penchant for drama!”

Beth’s cigarette disappears once more and returns to her whole world to cry:

I am smoke.
I can smoke.
I will smoke.



III. Love’s Doubt Is A Headache

Love asks, “What was the dream?”

At least Love asks.

Last night Love asks, “Why do you think doubt is a weakness?”

Because it is. Question but do not doubt. When one doubts, else topples.

“What if it’s just a matter of hesitation---”

See, because You are doubting then You hesitate on what must be done. In this negotiation, You doubt and people die. You hesitate and You get killed. It is a matter of trusting yourself to do and be able to live your faults. Doubt eats that trust and nothing is left but paralysis and fear. Act! In your mind you have to have that arsenal of solutions. One lightning after another. Now, here, you have a headache and you cannot think straight and clear? Love, pop a pill. Still hurts? Pop another pill, Love. The love can go on and on for solutions---- for one to do and done, lessen slipping, avoid failure believing that You are a failure. Do not doubt.

Clarity is always to be negotiated, never given.