Altar of Speed

by Archimboldi

The brain, washed in light.

Relentlessly, waves flash:

Addiction-induced evolution,

A body adapting for speed.


Acceleration-drunk nerves

The transitional subimage

These organs are too slow

to receive the blessings.


For we pray for lightning

And vibrate with thunder.


No matter how far

No matter the will

No matter the place

Only                     its            speed.


For we envy our creations

Their deeds our machines

Their speed our wish

To live in a light world.


New flesh beckons new reality

No longer held by its limits

Driven quick to satisfaction

For       in            acceleration                 is                               ETERNITY.


TO BE LIGHT LIKE

                     IS TO BE           FAST.

                                   AND TO BE FAST IS TO BE FREE.



What was sickness now offers

                                                        SALVATION

                                                                                    IN VELOCITY

An accelerated god, THROUGH       SPEED                          HE&'S KNOWN



                    birth&'d a NEW glorious BODY:


Prismatic eye
                                  broken idolater
Mercurial brain
                                  light distiller
Hammer-heart
                                  furious anvil
Dry tongue
                                  information river
Blood oil
                                  fluid explosion
Galvanized skin
                                  friction hedonism
Diamond nerves
                                  incandescent wires
Muscled expansion
                                  starry circuits
Stomach-drain
                                  temporal sewage


                              FASTER!

FRICTION     IS                 BODY WITHOUT

       DESTROYING                                                SPACE

                                      EVERY

                                      ALTAR

WE

                      MUST                                    MIND WITHOUT

BE                               BROKEN                               TIME

             FAST            LOOKING                              FOR APOTHEOSIS

                         DOES                                INCREASE

        NOT

        GIVE MORE                                SCOPE

BUT

        DESTROYS                                                VESSEL BODY

                                  NOTHING                        VELOCITY

                      IS

                                      I

fast,

                             fast,

                                                                                                               fast.


                                                     THE FLESH FALLS
                                     the intestine grows
                      hunger transcends digestion
               body extirpated from future and past
only a negation of the present: Fast!



                       Doppler effect
                 ghostly present
     what is: uncertain
   what will be: eternal
what remains: spectral

          AND
BROKEN|       |BROKEN


Last prayer and fast
where is the desert
where there&'s no time
only the slow eternal shine


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