We like to believe we run our own code. Biology lays the base, society rewrites it, and somewhere along the way the system becomes exposed. Naked wires in open air. Vulnerable to influence, suggestion, and the slow corrosion of constant input. This piece explores that fragile boundary, where the need to be seen becomes the breach, and a switch can flip without warning.
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Outside the Raging Fire
A meditation on distance, desire, and endurance. Outside the Raging Fire traces the human condition through elemental forces, memory, and restraint. This poem explores what it means to observe rather than burn, to persist without surrender, and to stand just beyond the heat where clarity, loss, and meaning quietly coexist
Mannino Acid 