onFrom the typewriter,the floor

Submitted by Avery on Sun, 11/16/2025 - 23:52



onFrom the typewriter,the floor


yex
yes
yes you
can try again
you can always try again
you can learn
i trust you


Why are you still here the cycles they
ITERATE inMaddening perpetuity
I find myself one moment and I am
undone with the only
certainty this body is
able to possess
it’s not callous to be unaware of what
you don’t yet know
yet
yet what you
do not know must be examined;
you have let conventions dissolve into you
don’t blame u
you are not to blame.

these were introduced in ritual in habit
routine and mundane repetition of what

must be for us to be
for the I to b
to become what could not be evil
what could not be held in language I


I miss you my darling where did you go
come back, let me smell what you are thinking
just this once please I pray you can still receive
me
i can fill you. Remember what
I can bring to you what we were oh why
why do you wait for this to end?
you can be the harbinger
so long as you are willing to weather
the consequences of your thoughts

the contracts we draw in between each other
in our shared gazes, glances,
and least of all, words. just fuck me undo me

I crave to be remade again I need to be remade again





Note from the artist:
This piece was originally done on a script typewriter my grandmother gave to me. She used to use it, now I do.

Quintessence is a multidisciplinary artist living in amiskwaciy, Treaty 6 territory on turtle island. They write, do fibre arts, host book clubs, and code, all Madly, all with care. @quin.tessence95

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