fingers

remembering the layers,
we had to start shutting down the simulations
many of us couldn't remember what we were doing,
where we were going
the encounter with VolVoX spread retroactively,
altering files as it went
a series of of spherical wavefronts
the black sublingua arts
uttering the insect pictograms
invading the hyperreal,
by stripping the real
the time gets fuzzy


edges begin to crackle with filaments

I WANT EVERY NUT AND BOLT ON THIS SHIP EXAMINED MINUTELY UNTIL THIS EXTRA MASS IS ACCOUNTED FOR!

once we have regrown into ourselves,
we can then weave the tendrils of our former reality

at the end, it was Junk Thing that counterbalanced the advance of the VolVoX system,
(I am reminded of the way that Junk Thing battled the Zombies in an earlier era)

at the end, it was the fact that parts of the ship had reached near terminal C,
relative to other parts (that were still contiguous),
that accounted for the extra mass

at the end, no one knows if Junk Thing had sentience or,
if it did,
when that sentience originated
was it born from the zombibotified brain of an earth scientist,
or was it Bordo's moon child?

in the end, no one knows if anyone had managed to pierce all the simulated layers of Control