The Identity of Weight: When the Beam Becomes the Word

The flesh no longer responds to instruction.

I shouldn’t be writing this like this.

The instruction arrives after.

Or maybe before.


The beam holds the thought.

No.

The beam holds the sentence before I think it.

That is not correct.

But it is already written.


There is a crack in the wall.

No.

First I write that there is a crack.

Then I see it.

Then I erase it.

Then it returns.


I’m not sure when I decided to write about the crack.

Before writing it.

Or after it was already written.


The alarm is still set.

I wrote that before seeing it.

Or I saw it before writing it.

Correction.

There is no difference.


I need to move my neck.

No.

This appears before the thought.

I delete it.

It still appears.


The cup is cold.

It wasn’t here when I started writing this.

Or it was.

I cannot stabilize the order.


I start noticing something worse.

It’s not that the crack changes things.

It’s that it changes the order in which I write them.


I write something.

Then I read it before I wrote it.

And correct it without knowing why.


The crack is not in the wall.

It is between the sentence and its arrival.


I shouldn’t be writing this.

But it is already written before I decide.


The beam does not hold the body.

It holds the moment the body appears in the sentence.


I need to move my neck.

No.

I already wrote it before I thought it.


And now I don’t know if I am writing or correcting something that hasn’t happened yet.

I have to move the neck I am not moving it I should…