physics lesson
Francesca Bellei
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sometimes love
cheats
the expansion of spacetime——
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others, the singularity
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beyond
which
our cosmic ancestry
cannot exist
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Mindfuck Manual
Francesca Bellei
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play with fourteen people
flip them upside down
moving back and forth
tinker with the kinks
iron out the skin
pick again from memory
take the curious parts
use each person broadly
subtly if you want
add a second movement
fill the missing need
create a lack of pattern
until you're satisfied.
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Francesca Bellei writes, edits, translates, and teaches. She is a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Amherst College, and a senior prose editor at the Massachusetts Review. Her writing has appeared in both print and digital publications in Italy, the UK, and the US. She has too many degrees, and a cat with too many admirers.