Unseeing

A perfectly clear transparency is impossible to see.
Sometimes the voice we direct toward the vast ocean
reverberates only within the confines of a cylindrical tank.

The top of this tank has its occipital region—responsible for vision—hollowed out,
replaced by cement made from stones gathered on the Odawara shore.

He persists in emitting a 1040 Hz sonar pulse (used for detecting fish)
throughout the expansive sea.
Yet nothing is visible, and the artificial mass prevents even the slightest buoyancy.

“Notice me,” he calls into the vast ocean,
though the sound echoes only inside his own tank.
Underwater, where sound travels five times faster than in air,
the transmitter continues to hope for “everyone” to respond—
like the early days of the internet,
when one believed that the whole world was connected,
and that someday, someone would hear.

But the world is, in fact, a nearly transparent,
15-centimeter-radius tank, sealed and unyielding.
No one can hear your voice
until you remove the artificially poured cement
and allow yourself to float free.

A perfectly clear transparency is impossible to see.
Sometimes the voice we direct toward the vast ocean
reverberates only within the confines of a cylindrical tank.

The top of this tank has its occipital region—responsible for vision—hollowed out,
replaced by cement made from stones gathered on the Odawara shore.

He persists in emitting a 1040 Hz sonar pulse (used for detecting fish)
throughout the expansive sea.
Yet nothing is visible, and the artificial mass prevents even the slightest buoyancy.

“Notice me,” he calls into the vast ocean,
though the sound echoes only inside his own tank.
Underwater, where sound travels five times faster than in air,
the transmitter continues to hope for “everyone” to respond—
like the early days of the internet,
when one believed that the whole world was connected,
and that someday, someone would hear.

But the world is, in fact, a nearly transparent,
15-centimeter-radius tank, sealed and unyielding.
No one can hear your voice
until you remove the artificially poured cement
and allow yourself to float free.

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