the principles of mathematics

Not-so-simple economics is what convinced us to
look for the edges of this world extreme.
Though karma corrected our arguments,
we are allowed to keep loveless arms
from robbing the luckier of us.

The Problem?
We used to jump into the sky,
no one needing to prove anything,
completing unfulfilled screaming desires.
They said lucky, we said…blue.

Doing/done. Breathe

Now it takes two whole days
for the madness to run through this space,
to make us happy, one more time,
to exist with one another, for one more day.

Tangled/better. Dream

Whatever he said was less than
what each of us needed, to ensure…an us.
Dark/We wait.

The new mattress on the bed,
has been worse than bad.
Instead of trying to convince each of us to worry less,
we confronted those dark nights, for peachier mediums.
You and I don’t need a we.



© 2015 Jessica Ceballos, all rights reserved.

At the beginning of the month of January, Jessica gave Terry  Wolverton 4 writing prompts. Terry produced fevered writing for each prompt and gave it back to Jessica. This is the poem Jessica has dis•articulated.

You can read the process and the final reflection o the process HERE, on the official dis•articulations website.