General Semantics

You want me to deny magic. Of course, it sounds pretty easy, but once you have actually seen it. Once it has been proven without a doubt it gets harder to pretend it doesn't exist. Well, I don't know if I should call it magic, general semantics gives it a term. It's actually identified as "object level" or something we know but can't verbalize. We experience objects of perception for which there is no way to verbalize. You want me to not see the space that is there, the gap that is between us. It's not air and it's not denial. It's just there. I'm not as good at self-delusion as I used to be. It makes me want to try a drug habit or dream therapy. This reality we created, well it's sort of unreal. Words are supposed to help us own things, we name our children, we name our duties, Adam named the animals, god named the water. Voices center at both creation and madness. It's the magic of loss, it's the magic of madness. The last words I didn't speak, when you were holding my hand. Our hands looked beautiful together. They belonged together, but that is the folly of the object level perception. I try an sweep it away, but it has to substance, no mass and therefore cannot be moved. It can only be.