Binary

—Abel: [01000001 01100010 01100101 01101100]
—Cain: [0100011 01100001 01101001 01101110]

take these
awesome
multitudes
and cleave
to zips and
ones

what do you
come up with

how many
cleavings
till you’re
done

I am not a sequence
that propagates a sum

I’m blood and bone

I sweat

my joints creak

I breathe

I hurt

I’m no mere
algorithmic pretense,
I’m fleshy prominence,
a spit of dirt with
brain & spine
that must not be
trifled with

I feel

I’m tender brutal
coy and vain (though
sometimes kneel)

some call my mother
Bluesky

some call my mother
Rain

some call my father
Abel

some call my father
Cain

I call my mother Mary

and Jim’s my father’s

name
.
Jim Culleny
9/27/18