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<<if $petalcount is 8>>the final petal awaits your hand.\n\n[[pluck it off]]\n[[let it be]]<<else>>\n<<set $petalcount += 1>>the petal wishes to be honored in the ways of old.\n\n[[give it to the wind, as an offering to air|air]]\n[[give it to the dirt, as an offering to earth|earth]]\n[[give it to the sea, as on offering to water|water]]\n[[give it to the sun, as an offering to fire|fire]]\n<<endif>>\n\n<<set $blade9 to true>>

<<if $petalcount is 8>>the final petal awaits your hand.\n\n[[pluck it off]]\n[[let it be]]<<else>>the petal is a folded origami wing.\n\n[[unfurl the wing]]\n[[uncrease the wing]]\n[[flutter the wing free]]\n\n<<set $blade8 to true>><<set $petalcount += 1>><<endif>>

<<if $petalcount is 8>>the final petal awaits your hand.\n\n[[pluck it off]]\n[[let it be]]<<else>>cackle innards: <<insert "a cave.">>\n\nwell past the point of longing. \nlongsince the laughter cracked.\n\na great sphynx unfurls from the foliage.\n<<cyclinglink $ask "the sphynx asks you" "you ask the sphynx">>:\n\n[[a question of kindness]]\n[[a question of lonlinenss]]\n[[a question of dilated time]]\n<<endinsert>>\n<<set $petalcount += 1>>\n<<set $blade1 to true>><<endif>>

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<<if $petalcount is 8>>the final petal awaits your hand.\n\n[[pluck it off]]\n[[let it be]]<<else>><<if $plook is true>>you pluck the petal.\n\n[[irrevocable|nine petals]]<<set $petalcount += 1>><<else>>you [[pluck|blade 2][$plook = true]] the petal.\n<<endif>>\n<<set $blade2 to true>><<endif>>

<<if $petalcount is 8>>the final petal awaits your hand.\n\n[[pluck it off]]\n[[let it be]]<<else>><<timedinsert 1s>>like the face of a cliff.<<endtimedinsert>>\n\n<<timedinsert 3s>>awning. impenetrable.<<endtimedinsert>>\n<<timedinsert 4.7s>>\n[[do you cliff the kiss side with that shore?|nine petals]]<<endtimedinsert>>\n<<set $petalcount += 1>><<set $blade5 to true>><<endif>>

<<if $petalcount is 8>>the final petal awaits your hand.\n\n[[pluck it off]]\n[[let it be]]<<else>>you reach for the helpless petal.<<set $blade4 to true>>\n\n//wait!// the petal cries.\n\n//there is another way!//\n\n//you do not have to engage in all this carnage!//\n\n[[proceed with the plucking]]\n[[ask what it means]]\n\n<<set $petalcount += 1>><<set $blade4 to true>><<endif>>

<<if $petalcount is 8>>the final petal awaits your hand.\n\n[[pluck it off]]\n[[let it be]]<<else>>having given in to anticipation, the petal falls before your fingers reach it. \n\n\n[[return to the petals|nine petals]]\n\n<<set $blade7 to true>><<set $petalcount += 1>><<endif>>

<<if $petalcount is 8>>the final petal awaits your hand.\n\n[[pluck it off]]\n[[let it be]]<<else>>gentle now, you grasp the petal in your thumb and forefinger.\n\nnever before have you known dismemberment to be such an [[act of love]]. \n\n<<set $blade6 to true>><<set $petalcount += 1>><<endif>>

the petal falls on its own accord, grateful you have gifted it a [[meeting with death on its own terms]].

the petal decomposes into the earth, and rebirths as a phoenix from the soil.\n\n\n[[return to petals|nine petals]]

[[and so it is|nine petals]]

must it be?\n\n\n[[true love feels like a cruxifiction]]\n[[the petal and what follows after]]

\n[[$press = "onwards"][there is a way out and there is a way in but whether that out leads in is left to the jury, who is in fact hung, which does in fact imply that they do not know, or do not care to share what they know, or have otherwise agreed to withold their knowledge on the subject therein and thereforafter, everafter, having tasted the after taste of a drop of gold, which was in fact in the shape of a tangerine, after having tasted the full body immersion that this tangerine called, so rightfully called, as in the exchange who is the one that is really called?]]

you <<insert "climb up">>\n<<insert "and up">>\n<<insert "and up">>\nher sturdy arms.\n\nyou look in her face and feel the desert heat compressing you together: a fractaline spirit meets a mote of dust.\n<<timedinsert 3s>>\n//[[are you okay, Anak?]]// she asks you.<<endtimedinsert>>\n\n<<endinsert>><<endinsert>><<endinsert>>

the thorn accepts your offering.\n\n//''the calyx who sees calyx in all four directions'' knows the way to the petal sovereign.//\n\n\n\n[[cool beans|six thorns]]

[[this is the part that follows after|meeting with death on its own terms]]

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/%botanist notations as an act of love\n\n//or//\n\nanatomy as a (of a ) heiroglyph \n\n//or//\n\n%/discography of a rose: an essay in linearity

[[return to the petals|nine petals]]\n<<set $petalcount += 1>>

a thorn made of fire.\n\n\n[[starve it with your thumb]]\n[[let the poor thing be]]\n<<set $thorn1 to true>><<set $thorncount += 1>>\n<<set $element to "fire">>

[[and so it is|nine petals]]\n

you run your finger along the thorn.\n\n[[press down to make it bleed]]\n[[lightly, just to scratch]]\n\n<<set $thorn4 to true>><<set $thorncount += 1>>

in the thorn you can see your reflection, curved and crystaline. \n\n\n[[shatter reflection]]\n[[gaze longer]]\n<<set $thorn2 to true>><<set $thorncount += 1 >>

a thorn made of ice.\n\n\n[[melt it with your thumb]]\n[[let the poor thing be]]\n<<set $thorn6 to true>><<set $thorncount += 1>>\n<<set $element to "ice">>

you scroll long and far to reach the palindrome. \n\nahha!\n[[god is i, dog]]\n[[go dis, i'd og]]\n[[godel, led O.G.]]

"come now, little love, what have you got to be sad about?"\n\n//i have found where the leaves turn over. would you like to see?//\n\n[[yes|nine petals][ever after having sown the reaping, having taken the pill, red then blue, then red again, for rounding, having done all that and then having swallowed, like swallowing coarse charcoal, like swallowing glass. only then did you find yourself at the ticketstand. it was twenty-five big ones, cheaper than the going price, but still enough to know that you'd be eating from the freebox until the weekend comes, and you work again, and have a chance to take home food. still. you hope it was worth it. you, a blushing bride before death. you, a sunken oasis. how many days has it been since you've mutilated a flower? he loves me. he loves me not. blindly you've learned to look for odd flowers, deflty you've learned to tread light for thorns. how long have you been hypnotised? how long have you been sucking down poison, poised as nutrients, poised as supplements, poised as being poised. how long until the night sets in? do you wish you traveled more? do you wish you followed him, or rather, do you wish he asked you to follow? in a meglomanic world, what is a sub to do? in a valley without pearls, can the morning doves really understand the meaning of solitude? the compression of sand into seaweed, the peculiar alchemy that happens when a clam is solemn shut.]]\n\n[[no|nine petals]]

[[and so it is|nine petals]]\n

like a window, or a small bear.\n\n\n[[return to thorns|six thorns]]

"oh, fersure" the sphynx responds.\n\ncool beans.\n\n\n[[return to the petals|nine petals]]\n

"sweet little petaloid, why are you so sad?"\n\n//i have found where the leaves turn over. would you like to see?//\n\n[[yes|nine petals][life is a birthing and you're birthing yourself petal pollup polyamory pull me up love i am crouched under i am hovered under i am waiting for the stars to show eating not until then not until the stars show we are eating, we are ravenous, we are hungry hungry hippos with not much to show for it, chauffeur it, chauffeur us yes please sir we like to get there on time in line this spime all the time like if you want me to make an altar i can make an altar if you want it to be based on release based on letting go and calling in i can do that i can do both i have the snakeskin you know the one i found in vietnam i have the jade cuttlings i have the dirt, we can plant and plant and still would we have sown enough enough as in pile harder father pile farther pile more pile more plow the till until its over blow the shrill right off the fan. would you give up your dreams to be with a man? would you give up your dreams to support someone follow their's? woah that changes things. sphinter lizard eyeball spine. ]]\n\n[[no|nine petals]]

the image is burned into your retinas.<<if $longer is 4>> but hey, aren't you glad you danced?<<endif>>\n\n\n[[return to thorns|six thorns]]<<fadeoutsound "469706__florianreichelt__drums-of-bedouins-in-the-sahara-desert.wav">><<playsound "268817__arightwizard__ambient-guitar-track.mp3">>

thank you, hummingbird.\n\n[[return to the petals|nine petals]]\n

psst hey wanna see some [[thorns|six thorns]]?\n\n\n[[return to petals|nine petals]]\n

//''scaffold three'' will bring you thorns//\n//the ''first petaloid'' is quite forlorn//\n//nudging one ''anther'' will awaken another//\n//''pistils'' are liars don't even bother//\n\n\n\n[[take this knowledge with you|nine petals]]

how many tears do you have and how often do they bleed?\n\nif [[it is where the light enters]] does it shimmer like [[the ocean at sundown]]? or does it [[gnaw like the lip of a flame]].\n\n<<set $torn3 to true>><<set $thorncount += 1>>

you see that this petaloid has a long face.\n\n[[approach gently]]\n[[approach sternly]]\n[[leave the poor thing alone|nine petals]]

/% a b c d e f g h i %/\npollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen [[pollen]] pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen pollen\n\n/% 29 lines\t\t\tg6 which is actually d7\n\n\n%/\n\n[[return to petals|nine petals]]\n\n\n

the thorn stands guard against wind, against tigers.\n\n\n//[[piercing is a step away from prudence.|six thorns]]//\n<<set $thorn5 to true>><<set $thorncount += 1>>

enchanting.\n\n[[return to petals|nine petals]]\n<<set $petalcount += 1>>

the petal is swallowed by the waves, churning into a thousand crystal drops in a spectre that baffled the sleeping leviathans, and then was seen no more.\n\n\n[[return to petals|nine petals]]

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psst hey [[this way|nine petals]] to the petals\n\n\n[[return to thorns|six thorns]]

i'd og too.\n\n[[return to petals|nine petals]]\n<<set $petalcount += 1>>

you shatter the thorn, and the image in the thorn.\n\n\n[[return to thorns|six thorns]]

bowlfishbowel

cool, okay.\n\n[[back to the petals|nine petals]]\n

<<if $element is "fire">>the flame thorn burns itself to a crisp. in its charred remains you see the sigil: ''D7 is a stamen's dream''<<else if $element is "ice">>the ice thorn melts into the air. in its wake you see the sigil: ''D7 is a stamen's dream''<<endif>>\n\n\n[[return to thorns|six thorns]]

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[[and so it is|nine petals]]\n

the passion. the scrutiny.\n\n\n[[meeting with death on its own terms]]

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your thumb is numb from the impact. the thorn is no more.\n\n\n[[return to thorns|six thorns]]

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always an avoidance of pain.\n\n\n[[cool beans|six thorns]]

THE RELEVANT PETAL IS EITHER PLUCKED OR NOT PLUCKED \nIMPLIES THE RELEVANT PETAL IS BOTH PLUCKED AND NOT PLUCKED, IMPLIES:\nthe relevant petal is either plucked or not plucked, written as: φ ∨ ~φ, where φ is a metavariable ranging for all possible statements of L0. The Law of Excluded Middles proves that this is equivalent to Pierce’s Law: [(φ ⊃ ψ) ⊃ φ] ⊃ φ. If φ ∨ ~φ then φ ∧ ~φ, implies φ ∨ ~φ, then φ ∨ ~φ.\n\n<<insert "in other words:">>\n\nall flowers are liars.\n\n<<timedinsert 1s>>[[return to petals|nine petals]]<<endtimedinsert>><<endinsert>>

you gently unfold the wing, smoothing out the creases as you go, and find in your hand a paper reading:\n\n//<<print either("buy the red car","kindness makes you beautiful","okay but have you tried yoga", "weird flex but okay", "sow the reaping"," to be petal is to be next in succession in a tradition of iteration. it is to be water, to be the water-bearer", "the world is overflowing with love for you","okay but girls in thigh-highs, amiright?")>>//\n\n\n[[return to the petals|nine petals]]

the petal was engulfed in flames, understanding finally the spiral of the sun, and how he gives without anything in return.\n\n\n[[return to petals|nine petals]]

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<<if $ask is "the sphynx asks you">>for light, what is the space known as time?\n\n[[a dustless mirror]]\n[[phase change from solid to air]]\n[[time is frozen from light's perspective. you imbecile. you absolute moron|just a reflection]]<<else if $ask is "you ask the sphynx">>for you who have <<cyclinglink "known" "withstood" "endured" "evaded" "befriended">> time, what is space?\n\n//[[just a conscious manifestation of light.]]//<<endif>>

<<if $blade1 is true>>blade 1<<else>>[[blade 1]]<<endif>> claw 1\n<<if $blade2 is true>>blade 2<<else>>[[blade 2]]<<endif>> claw 2\n<<if $blade3 is true>>blade 3<<else>>[[blade 3]]<<endif>> claw 3\n<<if $blade4 is true>>blade 4<<else>>[[blade 4]]<<endif>> claw 4\n<<if $blade5 is true>>blade 5<<else>>[[blade 5]]<<endif>> claw 5\n<<if $blade6 is true>>blade 6<<else>>[[blade 6]]<<endif>> claw 6\n<<if $blade7 is true>>blade 7<<else>>[[blade 7]]<<endif>> claw 7\n<<if $blade8 is true>>blade 8<<else>>[[blade 8]]<<endif>> claw 8\n<<if $blade9 is true>>blade 9<<else>>[[blade 9]]<<endif>> claw 9\n\npetite [[petaloid]] petite petaloid\npetite petaloid scaffold petaloid\nscaffold petaloid scaffold petaloid [[scaffold]] petaloid\n\n<<insert "anther">> [[anther]]<<endinsert>> anther anther\nantherantherantheranther\n\npistil pistil [[pistil]] pistil\n\n<<if $grandma is true>><<fadeoutsound "grandmalourdes.mp3">><<endif>>

the petal is carried by the wind, seeing parts of the world that the seed could never dream of.\n\n[[return to petals|nine petals]]

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okay, cool. \n\n[[back to the petals|nine petals]]\n

once your wick is lit, help others light their's too. \n\n\n[[return to the thorns|six thorns]]

<<insert "p">><<endinsert>><<insert "l">><<endinsert>><<insert "u">><<endinsert>><<insert "c">><<endinsert>><<insert "k">>\n<<timedinsert 2s>>\n\nit falls through the air without a sound.\n\n<<timedinsert 1.5s>>\n[[return to the petals|nine petals]]<<endtimedinsert>><<endtimedinsert>><<endinsert>>

still waiting on em.\n\n[[return to petals|nine petals]]\n<<set $petalcount += 1>>

how the days roll! \n\nhow time is a snake\ntime the silken cloth\nrunning around me\n\nthrough me\n[[as ice cuts water\nit melts into air]]\n

right on.\n\n[[go back to the petals|nine petals]]\n

you peer into the image. \n\n[[longer][$longer += 1]]\n[[look away]]

<<cyclinglink "studded" "adorned" end>> <<insert "rose">>: \n\n[[nine petals]], [[six thorns]]<<endinsert>>.\n

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the wing unfurls to reveal a rose-swan, mute and beautiful.\n\nshe flies away without a second glance.\n\n\n[[return to the petals|nine petals]]

[[and so it is|nine petals]]\n

[[yes, grandmother. i'm alright.|nine petals]]\n\n<<set $petalcount += 1>>

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the weight of your wandering\ncoalesces in your cuticles.\n\n[[another one for the small gods of rind and pith.]]\n\n

cool, okay.\n\n[[back to the petals|nine petals]]\n

cut off of oxygen, you stiffle the flame.\n\nit sizzles out.\n\n\n[[back to thorns|six thorns]]

do you know the words?\n\n[[the words are in your heart|make up the words]]\n<<loopsound "grandmalourdes.mp3">>\n<<set $grandma to true>>

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you unhindge the wing from the tendriled vines. an origami crane flutters into the wind.\n\n[[make a wish]]

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have you been changed by time?\nhave you changed time?\n\n\n[[back to the petals|nine petals]]\n

i invite you to join in.\n\n<<insert "ready?">>\n<<timedinsert 3s>>\n\n<<loopsound "grandmalourdes.mp3">>\nfirst listen, then see what you can add. then listen again.\n<<timedinsert 3s>>\n\n[[the best way to show gratitiude is to live an unapologetic life|nine petals]]<<endtimedinsert>><<endtimedinsert>><<endinsert>>

<<timedinsert 2s>>say it outloud and it's sure to come true.\n\n<<timedinsert 2s>>\n[[return to petals|nine petals]]<<endtimedinsert>><<endtimedinsert>>

[[and so it is|nine petals]]\n