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Surrealistly // moments

by Lorin Drexler · Nov 7, 2022

Surrealistly – Featured Artist

moments

the eye in the sky pretends
to be the universe
looking back at me
pretend is all we have 
really
so i go with it
there's much debate but 
we still can't decide
the authenticity of each other's positioning
they are just that
sitting in our respective heads
miscommunicating
coming up with things from the ether
well
my ether
and the universe's figurative one
i ask for an orange
i get a banana
the universe hears plantain
it responds with tangerine

there's just so much randomness
it's easy not to trust any of it
everything pokes through
like old cheese and not swiss 
holy cheese
from holy cows
you know
the kind that make you think
too much
about weird things
good and bad things
and subjectively of course
or intercoursed

my shoes are untied
and they're brand new
brand-spankin' new!
and i swore i tied them
twice
twice i tell you!
and now the laces are split
like a banana
my whole head is splitting
because of this little conundrum
that continues to grow
	—a series of mini-episodes—
drowning in a bath that was meant
to relax you and dip your 
hedonistic crown into the greatest
leisures civilization has to offer
though it coincidingly has you bleeding
from your head like a prophet
at the end of his caper

it can't let it be
it knows what's good for us

we are bananas
turned hammocks
turned old and pasteurized 
turned dead and flowering
sprouting like zombies
friendly beasts from a beautiful hell
but hey 
we all need love
some more than others

these hells we live by
these names that judge us
like tempered spirits with red eyes
flinging across the room
but see
they'll disappear
each one
every inch of 'em
these names will vanish into the earth
and nature will eat well
swallow cities whole
and this state of perpetuity 
will be no longer

the face of the day sheds a wrinkle in time
this day shall ring
the people will stop hiding and seeking
stop thinking doing is what matters
and be confronted with the gospel 
they have eaten too much machine food
barfed their brains in the world too frequently
the awareness of what is not intellect
is a precedent to shit thoughts
from spying dream bugs that
grow into loving it

no one will remember this
not you
especially not you
you think you might
you pray you will
for every inch of your timeclock flesh
but you won't
you certainly won't
i will
i'll remember everything
remembrrrr
the figurative ether
the ether that grants the thought
you think you asked but instead
[of an orange] you got a—
well you get the idea
even this banana thing
using it as a telephone
calling your mom
she telling stories of you as a kid
ones that make you uncomfortable
but shouldn’t

i see something peeking 
around the hill
looking at me
i realize it's me
it's been me
the whole time
pretending to be someone else
haunting my mind with steel poles
stripper poles
gangbanger poles
gay cop making
in the bushes poles
and to think
this whole time
i thought someone 
gave a shit
a real shit
but they didn't

i'm paranoid as fuck
and as fuck i'm not taking lightly
strong as fuck
AS FUCK!!!
you know how i mean
everyone in the room has 
trouble shaking it
and others in adjacent rooms
or apartments or houses or towns or cities
or states or countries or continents
or oceans or galaxies or universes or 
whatever surpasses the most surpassed
gets curious and puts a glass to the wall
inciting their feline to penetrate their tame
a feeling they've sought after countless nights 
into dish rags and leftover fast-food napkins
all they hear is sex
in violent arrhythmias
their ears grow
like giant elephants
as such
other body parts follow 

they are virile
they know their place amongst
the stars
in line at the grocery
buying candy at the theatre 
wherever the fuck they are
they know in traffic they can't
fly or turn into an insect 
and escape the madness—
being squashed seems to be
a simple alternative to existing 
in this bigger more perverse thing

oh they know their place
most do
most get attached to 
living as human
death to life
the romance of it
so much so
blood spurts everywhere
and go figure
the furniture is white
ain't that the truth
like an old transistor
trying to find a channel
that works but all it gets
is static
with waves of something
almost tangible
feelings that almost
make sense
an analog mask of digitalia 

we are made up of moments
made up moments
nothing more
a series of them
and we call them things
marriage
funeral
graduation
birthday
celebration
yada yada yada
worky worky worky
all the things
we entangle our energies
in
before they consume
us and we name them and attach
our ids and truths to them
as if their name is
more important than the moment
they provide
i resort to thoughts of 
nature in moments like this

i am drowning in what i know as
belief
everyone sees me
and now i know i am blank
bored as an eaten apple
turning a new leaf
a fish out of water
always turning
and eventually you'll turn
and we'll turn together

by LORIN DREXLER


Surrealistly

https://surrealistly.com

Artificial intelligence is capable of creating some truly amazing and stunning pieces of art. Surrealistly.com is a website that sells art generated by AI DALL·E 2, an artificial intelligence program created by Open AI. The artworks on the surrealistly.com website are all original and unique, and are created in a surrealist style. 

Surrealism is a style of art that aims to defy logic and reason, instead embracing the subconscious mind and its ability to create dream-like images. This makes it the perfect style for AI-generated art, as the computer is not limited by the same rules and conventions that humans are. Instead, it can create truly bizarre and otherworldly images that are truly breathtaking.


What is Gen Society?

Gen Society is an art space blog for visual art and creative writing collaborations, and other randomizations. Hosted by writer and musician Lorin Drexler, this online venue is an expressive experience for those interested in the world of the arts. It is a poetic journey through the hearts and minds of contemporary artists in practice and a reflection of those that have long passed.

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