Continuation of a Black Hole

I.

Black holes eat time. Known.
Make sure you are watching at a safe distance.
Make sure you are watching from thousands of years away.
(Distance is the only possible precaution)

II.

Gravity
will pull –
but there is a chance
that it is reversed. There
is chance attraction
reversed. Or is reversed.
Only the fascinated accept with adoration.

III.

The rest of us have nervous bellies:
We expand aware, unfelt the Universe
We begin to contract upon (into) ourselves without warning
We die instantly
We witness death unended

IV.

Watch carefully while things are pulled.
Lose all width.
Become flat but not weightless.
Observe the murder.
There is so much gravity, color cannot
escape. Even light fails.
Close your eyes.
So small what allows me to remember.

Alyssa Martinez is currently in her third year at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the BFA with emphasis in Writing program and has also taken summer writing courses at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University. Alyssa recently adopted a typewriter named “The Beast” from Unique Thrift, and hopes he aids her in future writing endeavors.