Temporal Intervals

Each breath evaporates,

leaving nutriment in its wake

~ fertility.

Are the product standards of popular culture attainable by all?

The popular products: popularity, dominance, mate selection, abundant resources.

Security and comfort as the reward for marketing a Western beauty ideal.


Is it ...
social acceptance?

socially acceptable?

Is dignity?

As identity is to purpose, persuasion is to success.

Convinced by the conviction, confidence, and the sureness of their benefits.

You could say the line divides, you could say the line defines.

Lines can be identified as lines.
As an accessible metaphor all that is understood is so by terms of what we already understand.

These lines remind me of another collection of molecules I've already experienced.
Where are they now? I'm not certain. Do they exist in me? Do they exist without me?
The line employed could differentiate bewtween each case.

The mind designs lines to divide the conscious know from the unconscious knowledge.

The other, unconscious of I, evaporates.
Breath after breath leaves behind the trail of evidence supporting their existence.

I live in this wake.