{"id":5619,"date":"2026-07-07T01:31:57","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T22:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/axis-v.com\/?p=5619"},"modified":"2026-07-07T01:51:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T22:51:50","slug":"non-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/axis-v.com\/en\/non-thought\/","title":{"rendered":"Non-thought"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The mind surrendered: melted the metal, and this shaft rolled down beneath the ribs.<br>A heavy stone, swallowed in dreams, fell numb in the womb between the walls.<br>This is not thought &#8211; a tactile archive, a few sutures on torn muscles.<br>Undigested meaning hardens like a scar on aching flesh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lips wearily pull downwards, like brushwood &#8211; broken habits.<br>And the motor skills of the fingers are dull, like a blind track in the forearm.<br>Sight pierces straight through these things, for there is no escape from essence &#8211;<br>The gaze sinks into dark water, into thick opaque fuel oil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wars crawl past me, restless partings and cities.<br>Reality has driven itself into the skin like a nail, yet fear passes these shoulders by.<br>The rebar of twisted veins no longer craves an intoxicating triumph:<br>It endlessly pumps ore, turning lymph into misfortune.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have never drunk this life &#8211; only the beating of my deaf heart.<br>I merely carried the idea through time, so that the reserve would be preserved in the joints.<br>Metaphysics became saliva, a cobweb of interwoven nerves,<br>Which changed my chemical composition, like hail that shattered ephemerality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mind surrendered: melted the metal, and this shaft rolled down beneath the ribs.A heavy stone, swallowed in dreams, fell numb in the womb between the walls.This is not thought &#8211; a tactile archive, a few sutures on torn muscles.Undigested meaning hardens like a scar on aching flesh. 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