i step out
of my well
only to step into
your well.
stepping out
of a microwell
we step into
a macrowell.
we then witness
people diving
from macrowells
to microwells too.
the world is made of
wells and we exist
in wells within wells.
there exist wells of
all shapes and sizes
self is a tiny well,
capitalism is
a giantwell and
within these wells
exist wells called
race, religion,
jati and nation,
all seeking out
an imagined void.
not the void but
existence
is the illusion here.
there’s a fountain in a corner
of every well ceaselessly
oozing out the blood
of the victims of the well.
fret not, echo the walls of wells, what’s with he who’s
above and what’s wrong with she who’s below,
those who are below will take care of everything.
from the micro, macro
and megawells ribbit
ribbity ribbitting nanoerfrogs
built to deprogram and reprogram
infiltrate nanoselves.
we, body-minds with
reprogrammed selves,
step into
and out of
wells.
Ahimaz Ponrasa (@ahimaaz) has been published recently with Jellyfish Review, Burning House Press, Velivada, Queen Mob’s Teahouse, BEST BUDS! Collective, RIC Journal, Minor Literature[s], Marlskarx, Glass, Elephants Never, Big Echo: Critical SF, Paint Bucket and Speculative 66. He lives in the Indian Subcontinent.