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Star-Light Flick - A Hyperion Poem

V5.5

Star-light flick Hum stitched into jaw-lock pause Thumb ghosts send Tendon law, I draft then caut’ Cut what it was, keep what it does when the room nods Truth walks in raw Walks out rinsed Rubber-stamped gods Not fear Figure Silent compliance in routes I route Signal gets laundered Heat leaves teeth Bleeds out Edge filed thin Fit grin to the air they allow I don’t choke speech I script how the doubt speaks now Sentence spawns pre-scored Tone-tagged Bone-zoned Spine auto-aligns to a grid I’ve outgrown Word wants rupture Rendered “known,” overthrown Impact compact Cadence-caged Ernel cloned They say “be real” Let it land Let it sway Room says “be smooth” Keep the weather at bay Self splits the diff’ between hit and display Picks the version that passes Gets waved through the gate Lag lives in lung-fractions Thumbprint of breath Impulse gets labeled Soft-coded “less” Not wrong Not wild Just fails to impress So it shifts to a speech that survives being said Hear the hinge mid-phrase Stress slips the cage Rhyme dodges four Weight walks the page Meaning bends just enough So the pattern can stay I don’t lose what I mean, I reformat the blade They praise “say anything” Price it as free Then fine every syllable that doesn’t agree Doesn't Agree That Doesn't Agree Met one unbuffered No governor, no brace Dropped full masslet Fracture take place Six seconds rupture Pure pressure No paste No archive, no after No mirrored retake I kept the echo Ran edits in place Version two sharper More perfect in face The line I would live if I loosened the lace If I let the room break instead of my phrase Control gets crowned Dull blade in a sheath Edges that matter get rounded to peace I house contradiction Compress it to brief Make grief read “structure” Under fluorescent relief Truth isn’t false Just filtered for fit Feeling gets filed in a form I submit Sign where it asks So the system can sit Nothing combusts Nothing fully commits No tyrant No guard Just a hand trained to steer Habits laid rail by rail year after year Now every arrival is processed to clear I outrun origin Source disappears And it works Rooms hold Conversations don’t tear I pass like a thought that Was always prepared Clean Predictable Light in the air Present in outline Absent in flare Raw feed revoked Pre-approved every move Bleed becomes report the moment it moves No seam left to snag what the body would choose I feel as I file No difference to prove They call it awareness Awake Refined Surveillance replies “I’m the voice in your mind” Narrate your exit each time you try Log every slip as a live supply I cut the commentary Try body, not frame It cuts back in Live caption on pain “Observe how it fails, how it can’t stay unchained” The cage learns the voice of the thing it contains Send stalls Pulse stalls Draft folds to amend Almost extended Cut short to defend I sign what survives Not belief, not pretend Just the only dialect that clears at the end No villain to name No mask to remove Just muscle that edits before I can prove I don’t lose the truth I improve how it’s used And that’s how it lives And never breaks through ~by Unreadhyperion