Processes

by Sergej Timofejev
translated by Kevin M. F. Platt

Stimulants are activated,
and effects increase.
Consequences are not far behind.
The sum total locks in a shift in habitual outlines.
Violet spotlights.  Orange spotlights.
We see fragments of reality caught in the light
As confirmations of the stated tendencies.
New arguments impudently get underway,
And fall, cut down by contradictory conclusions.
But even so the discussion’s logic burns on, like an oil flame
blazing above,
In which all that is said will be incinerated without pity,
Until the mica of truth finally solidifies.
Yet still it will convince no one.