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Thermocline

  1. ///verse 1
  2. the thermocline is the interface where temperature breaks
  3. where the warm layer above and the cold layer below makes
  4. a boundary so sharp you can feel it on your skin, a wall
  5. not a gradient, a cut, an edge, the warm and cold recall
  6. two different worlds existing in the same water
  7. the thermocline is where one world ends and the other
  8. begins without announcement, no sign, no preparation
  9. just the sudden cold fact of a different information
  10. i passed through my thermocline at twenty six or seven
  11. the warm layer above was comfortable and even
  12. had its beauty, the warmth of not yet knowing
  13. the warmth of the incomplete, the warmth of still growing
  14. without the knowledge of the cost then the boundary
  15. then the sudden cold intelligence, the foundry
  16. where the metal of who you are gets its actual test
  17. and the warm layer you came from fails to interest
  18. you anymore not because it was false
  19. but because the cold below has different laws
  20. and the laws are truer, harder, more demanding
  21. of precision guess the thermocline is the landing
  22. strip for the version of yourself that costs something
  23. the warm version was real but the cold version is the one thats unbluffing
  24. ///verse 2
  25. the sax is playing the temperature difference
  26. playing the gradient, the resistance
  27. of one body of water against another
  28. the cold doesnt move up and the warm doesnt bother
  29. to descend they press against each other at the line
  30. and the line holds, the thermocline holds, and I
  31. have been holding at mine ever since I crossed it
  32. ever since I paid whatever crossing it cost it
  33. costs your previous self, costs the easy narrative
  34. costs the warm water biography you were trying to live
  35. before the cold fact of your actual subject matter
  36. rose to meet you at the line and made the comfortable shatter
  37. not violently, thermoclines dont shatter, they clarify
  38. they make the boundary legible, they qualify
  39. the nature of the two worlds and once youve felt the cut
  40. of that cold intelligence, the warm layer above is shut
  41. to you not because your bitter, not because your cold yourself
  42. but because the information differential puts the self
  43. on one side of the line permanently, you are cold water now
  44. you are deep intelligence now, you are the how
  45. of the thing rather than the what, you are the process
  46. not the product and the thermocline is where you confess
  47. that to yourself for the first time without flinching
  48. the thermocline is the albums hinge, the cinching
  49. point where the warm water songs end
  50. and the cold water record begins to send
  51. its different signal, ive been cold water
  52. since the crossing, this album is the cold water
  53. ///bridge
  54. the temperature just broke
  55. I didnt feel it coming
  56. and the warm water above me
  57. is a different country now
  58. i visit it in memory
  59. i speak its language with an accent
  60. the thermocline gave me an accent
  61. in every room I enter
  62. from below

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