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"Redundancy Limit" by Geramee Hensley

9/18/2020

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Geramee Hensley is a writer from Ohio. They are Poetry Editor at Tinderbox Poetry Journal. Their work has been featured in Button Poetry, Indiana Review, Hobart, New Poetry from the Midwest 2019, The Margins, The Recluse, The Shallow Ends, and elsewhere. You can find them @geramee_. 

Redundancy Limit

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The office job boils down to a series of tasks that could ultimately be completed by anyone.
Please apply Zeno’s paradox of the arrow to social mobility and the desire to scale 
the corporate paywall. I do mean paywall. It is no secret that how much money you have 
is directly proportional to the number of dolphin tears for which you are responsible. 
What an ocean before you! An unending playground of mammalian sadness. In the words 
of the inimitable Rachel Ray: yum-o. In the words of my father, drink up, bucko. 
There is simply too much heartache to go around, and you have only three stomachs
if you count your lungs. Repeat after me: everything about your life has happened before, 
bears repeating and is a series of tasks that could ultimately be completed by anyone. 
Repeat after me: the violence you commit is uniquely destructive in the sense that 
it occupies a specific slice of space-time. There’s a series of people erased 
at the end of the first sentence. There is a set of innate conditions, let's call them 
privileges, readily available, and more importantly unavailable to a series of people erased 
at the end of the first sentence. Repeat after me: the love you make is uniquely creative, 
generative of a soft tissue in the core of an abdomen. That tissue is a series 
of repeatable cells emergent of a redundant organ performing a repetitive task. 
From the single-cell task to a multicellular repetition yields an increasing complexity 
of redundancies asymptotic to what? Repeat after me: you are an unrepeatable 
anomaly in a series of unrepeatable anomalies performing a series of uniquely creative, 
differently-privileged tasks that could ultimately be completed by any series of replicative 
r e d u n d a n c i e s   a p p r o a c h i n g   a   d e l i n e a t i n g   l i m i t.  Y u m - o.
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