Binary Emoticons
Thursday, February 1, 2018 at 11:00AM BY: ANDREW SHODELL '19
PTS Falconer Staff
Rods and cones brush paint over the Cartesian plane
Forming a foundation of elemental points, forever increasing.
The only three dimensional aggregate complete.
A mural with walls and a painting with laws of physics-- so finite --
The only existence is the gallery in art; tangible visions; opaque when held up to the light;
The inescapable corners in a canvas of concrete.
An endless continuity of infinite points; zeros and ones; the ancestry of Being
And a mere sequence of geometry, enchained.
The system bears life - body - limited
Immure by remaining under the sun;
Compiled by simplicity and nonexistent without.
Condemned to lie under The Starry Night’s formulaic trust
Of a crescent, a circle, and an ampersand gust.
Yet the ones venturing deep develop incorporeal doubts;
Require the infinite of the thousands over the infinite between zero and one.
And above the unnumbered expanse -- all remains, and returns to, a wall of the added primitive.
