object_88 – Joshua Finzi

Another brilliant piece from a GUNNAS WRITING MASTERCLASS WRITER

I try to immerse myself in coffee. Not in a mediated psycho-physiological way, i.e. imbibing excess amounts of the substance.

I mean to really be at essence within, a part of, belonging to, identically synonymous with the coffee.

It must be that way.

Elements of burned foam correspond to nodes in the brain where the electrical signals fail to keep.

Caffeinated residue is akin to seminal fluid or female ejaculate. To be inside — or metaphysically inseparable from –:

that is as much divine as it is a necessary endeavour in

comprehending the symptoms of lived experience.

One could replace the fluid with ale or water,

but the constituent fundamental parts, the

in-itself of the molecular structure of the fluids,

differentiates them from coffee, & from inhabiting coffee in

the most peculiar & transformational of ways.

It is like metempsychosis, the transmigration of the soul into fluid:

supercooled helium reacts to

boundaries & friction differently than does

urine.

Hence, to identify with & be wholly, substantially

coffee is to take on an identity distinct from

& unique to ancillary substances. Coffee is

a teleology.

Preceding substances are steps on a ladder, categories in a hierarchy of

spiritual being. The phenomenal state of coffee is

eschatological, a gavel-sound in the ascension through

lived states. It is philosophically incongruent to rational

behaviour to aim for anything other than a complete bodily,

psychological, & identity transformation into coffee.

There can be only the caffeinated fluid, insofar as

all the rest is like the shedding of skin.

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