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Falling

Anastasia Kolas17/07/25 07:0177
Lawn managment team, Schlossgarten Charlottenburg Photo: Anastasia Kolas, 2025
Lawn managment team, Schlossgarten Charlottenburg Photo: Anastasia Kolas, 2025



Your life as a bot

Your life as an academic


Your well-trained life

Your well-dressed life

Your life as an icon

Your inexperience, and

your overqualified life


Your life sitting on the two chairs

Of social agitation and seeking pleasure

Your life of inquiry

Study 

and of

forgiving

and of forgetting 

(often, sometimes)


Your life as accretion

Your life as an edit

Your life as a spy

Beholding the life in their eye


Your life as a man

The plot of your life

Just living your life

Life is not easy


Your life as an algorithm

(which is different 

than your life as a man

and your life as a bot)


Your life as a living corpse

a corpus

an oeuvre


You life as an application

And a submission

You life with a click of button

Your life in a blink of an eye


Your life in theory

and in practice

Gesamtkunstwerk as your life

And all the

          interludes,

meandering,

          and the blunders


The gray days of living

The injury of your life

The abyss 

      and the epigenetics


Your life as a journey

Your life as a maze

The polishing tools

And the actual chaos


Your life as a drama

A platitude, a banaility

The tragi-comedy of your life

The image dump of your harddrive


Your life as an apple

And the act of falling

Off the proverbial

Tree


Your life as a child

And as “generation that came before this”

Your life as a prize

And a gift

and a bow


The weight of hopes piled onto your life

And your life of hoping

Coping with the mundanity

Of your everyday life


Your life as bacterial composition

As an infection

Your life of fruition and of turning fetid

Your life as a partner in the international crime


Your life as an interface

A reduction

An ephemeral transition

The interface — as your life


Your life in a void

Life reduced to an image,

a sentence.

Sentencing,

to a life in a slot

Your life as a category

And as a judgment 

And how it actually felt

 to have been alive


Your life amongst others

Your life of merger

      and individual exaltation

And the many ways to get stuck 


Your life as change of seasons

Your life within reason

Your rational life

And that apostatic moment that changes your life


Your life of digestion

Your life of excretion

The biometrics and health report of your life

And the data set of 

       “the time spent laughing”


Your life as the recipe

           the ingredients,

            the shopping list,

              and the cake


Your life and all the baked-in conditions

     that shape it


Your life of falling onto your face


Your life as a membrane

   or/and —


An iridescent

Event


Your life as a fruit that someone will eat.


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