Demonic Words (unfinished old poem that feels good as it is)

[tun]

That is what you desire. To not know. To have no consciousness. Neither lack nor cease of desire. You want to keep adding by subtracting. Subtracting by adding is demonic poetry.

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You may recall this one:

Survival is Eager


Out of woods,
out of space and sea,
a tale of beasts,
harvest brown vegetables,
grasshoppers, smell of mantis
and dirt.
Homegrown business.
Relic of immanence.
A fine place to find aliens
if you know where to look.

Hello to backroads, farewell to ideas.
Ever ready with sap, primitive crush
of insects between teeth and gum.
Smell of mantis, and stain of sour urine
on atmosphere, introduces the woody, fur-
forsaken beast.
Don't expect something monstrous afoot.
We've run out of strange land
though are filthy with realms.

Take language only as a map
and be half-lost.
A creature must have a creator
for the puny definition to stick,
this beast is half-spelled.
Call gods a conjuring trick at your risk.
This speller is not afraid, opens his mouth,
tongue of horn, sandalwood, opal,
at the forkroad with hands tied.
He does not fear the cross.

Death is not the plot, only adventure.
Nor is this a story of love, lost or sought.
Classic sense.
Dream logic with no narrative.
Generic nature of beasts.

Midway to climax,
no solution to be
bored with. No warning,
no ending. More or less,
more beast.
Route of no number.

I have not seen this before. But the question remains; If something is designed to be impossible to remember - In what sense does it exist? If its purpose is to never be - What is it?