my whole life since
maybe 1969
i've been struggling to write
a single book
with an evershifting shape but always
a psychology text
that at least sketches an outline
of human motivation
viewed thru a literary lens
like 'the sims XVI'
in textbook form
like solace perhaps
a composition of extracts
of nuances
like brainfeathers or finnegans wake
everyman's everyhistory
like laws of form or antimath
built up elegantly
from a single bit
like a pattern language for literary patterns
like polti or roget
a classification of plots
of story skeletons
like knuth a catalog
of data structures and algorithms
like cyc
a knowledgebase of common sense
like adler's syntopicon
an inventory of philosophies
wisdom marked up for robots
like the semantic web
a hierarchy of metadata
most urgent first
a constitution
for some possible utopia
and now centered on
colored lines in spacetime
x normally longitude-space
y simply ordinary time
with one line per
true human lifestory
and now with a suggested
simple first coloring
white for happy familymembers
all alike
blue for sad
red for bad
yellow for sickly
or better
for enslaved?
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