presence

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define: ache

according to oxford it is 
noun: a continuous or prolonged dull pain,
and merriam webster is using the word persistent in the place 
of continuous, 
or prolonged, and in the meantime
wiktionary has brought up how 
										         [the verb form used to have a k in it]
	                                                  [and at some point the same sound also meant celery.] 

					                    dull persists.
 
the word dull crosses every prescribed definition, and 
i suppose celery is also dull to some

define: me
a pronoun used by a speaker to refer to himself or herself 
											                                   [where do i fit in]
as the object of a verb or preposition
											             [do i refer to myself as object]

when i say something happened to me, did it happen to the person or 
only to the body that occupies this space 
										                       	               		      [the space]
										                       	                 [that i rest within]
these bones move with a flashing - jupiter moon,
something like celestial light in the sky, 
every summer day imagined is
a zap of potentia in series                                                                              
                                                                                                                  [the memory of flesh]
                                                                                                                       [runs electric, too]

you seem to move only in 
zeroes and ones      				                       		    [zeroes and ones, like a color]

i exist                                                                                                                           [you exist]
only in mind                                                                                                        [only in mind]


           					[but i, you, have become a husk]
				                   [and in this silence you rest]
					             [and in this silence i rest]

                                                                       hello?

we have reached an 
unknown intersect 
between what’s here 
and what used to be, 
we’re here in the rain                                                                             [short-circuiting, but]
                                                                      i'm here