(untitled) -- a collection of experimental poetry [COMPLETE]

the fourth dimension is a violent pencil

i thought of the things
that my eyes won't ever see

lines
i imagined lines
a red line
a blue line
a green line
all perpendicular to each other
i tried to imagine another
a yellow line
one which would also be
perpendicular to the first three

easy,
imagine a piece of paper
an image of the three axes
and poke a pencil through the origin
and then imagine that the projection
printed on the piece of paper
has three dimensional depth
within the depth
of the real world containing the pencil

you need the 5th dimension?
take a photo of your piece of paper
with the pencil poked through it
print it
and poke another pencil
through the origin again

checkmate,
spacetime manifold