Something knocks before language something walks behind the wall sleep breaks first then the room gets teeth then the pattern starts touching everything I don’t call it truth I call it pressure I don’t call it vision I call it weather I let it circle I let it burn I let it make noise but not return No coronation no clean throne no signal gets trusted alone I’m the generator I’m the governor too I make the weather then I make it prove let it drift a little don’t let it breed if the signal gets through me it better come clean same skull two jobs same skull two locks one makes the lightning one checks the box High-gain engine under the floor background synthesis chewing the door restless body false map alarm every beautiful structure gets held at arm claims ladder locked stack downgrade come back boundary declaration decision only do not integrate not yet not wholly I don’t trust the signal I trust what survives I don’t trust the fire I trust what still arrives I’m the generator I’m the governor too I make the weather then I make it prove let it drift a little don’t let it breed if the signal gets through me it better come clean same skull two jobs same skull two locks one makes the lightning one checks the box It wants to name the whole room it wants to bloom from one clue it wants a doctrine it wants a gate it wants to tell me why I stayed awake I say maybe I say no I say show me where the pressure goes I say survive the second pass I say survive the clean room glass Generator says open the file Governor says wait Generator says there’s a pattern alive Governor says state Generator says move right now Governor says late Generator says this is the one Governor says falsify eight signal candidate pressure candidate false map candidate noise signal candidate pressure candidate false map candidate choice no direct re-entry no shortcut recovery no self-certified state no beautiful machinery gets to decide its own fate I’m the generator I’m the governor too I make the weather then I make it prove let it drift a little don’t let it breed if the signal gets through me it better come clean same skull two jobs same skull two locks one makes the lightning one checks the box I don’t trust the signal I trust what survives I don’t trust the fire I trust what still arrives allow emergence deny coronation allow emergence deny coronation same skull two jobs same skull two locks
