It’s a chemically engineered substance intended to ‘hold back the dam,’
with these damn chemicals that build up in your body and brain
to prevent other ones building up in your body and brain.
In circles we go, to obtain these little circles that are meant to
quell the rapid cycles that spiral within the mind,
and ’round these parts, you better have some funds flowing
to keep up with the up-keep and keep this dam damn flowing..
Sometimes it feels like a maze that keeps changing.
Make all the right turns, and you’re left back at square one, gazing –
into the void, with an old, folded, yellowed hydro-electrical manual,
and the poor foreman is expected to fix all the innerworkings,
but the methods and materials keep changing, re-arranging
the arrangement made on how to maintain the body and brain.
Trying to read the manual, the foreman gets lost in words that repeat, repeatedly
as these treacherous whirlpools pool words into destructive spirals with infinite curves:
“We have the best tools for hydro-electric concrete retention, pushing back on the water’s natural forces and pressures of the body of water it holds back, to regulate hydro-static pressure…”
Word soup boils hot while the dam cracks, but doesn’t break,
for the consequences are just too great for it to take; given, say, another sudden earthquake.
The dam bares it all with repairs to the walls.
As another new expensive method starts at phase one,
and the foreman begins to question whether any of these new materials help at all.
Maybe it’s all just in the foreman’s head? The dam might be holding up fine, instead –
but the thing is, I’m the foreman in the walls, making sure the water goes,
and whenever it feels like walls are closing in or ‘the veil is thin,’
it feels like another referendum on the synthetic circles, these,
things that-are-supposed-to-combat ‘rapid cycling,’ or ‘feelings of worthlessness.’
But what does the foreman know? The dam walls are concrete, but sometimes feel hallow.
Nevertheless, I refer to the dam’s manual to make sure it all-flows. – RSM
Rubén Sebastián Muñiz | ∞ 