Together, alone

Edoardo Segato-Figueroa
Handcuffs & Hijinx
Published in
2 min readJun 19, 2023
Together, alone — Bezoar + Midjourney

Deny it as much as you want________when I look away, there’s no more mooN

Indulge in the illusion of real_____________when I am the one, i am the herO

Sim within a sim within a sim_____flat earthers, deep state, aliens, illuminatI

Too many truths, so many lies_______________________is this the final tesT

React — don’t respond — reply, now replay_________i’m psychotic, it’s somatiC

Anxious? avoid asphyxiation_________forgetting your breath leads to traumA

Cache food in and out of your system_______emotional eating away summeR

Time flies on dull days___can you really elude quaintness if you are the quainT

I kill myself every meal, every day_____you can’t kill time with trivial hobbieS

One inspiration, 1 expiration_______________here and now alone, you and I

Nevermind we’re losing our selves________not all that’s lost should be founD

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I hope you enjoyed my palindrome acrostic. This palindrome acrostic was inspired by a Rotas-Sator magic square and can be read both top to bottom on the left and bottom to top on the right. Also, you can read it as one poem or as two different ones, by isolating the left or the right half, top down or bottom up! Have fun, let me know your thoughts down in the comments, like, tip or subscribe to support.

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NB: Unfortunately, I had to tweak the original acrostic because Medium’s page format doesn’t give me enough space to write longer verses on one single line. Read the original poem here. This acrostic was published originally on Vocal.media.

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Edoardo Segato-Figueroa
Handcuffs & Hijinx

Climate & science fiction short-storyteller • Nikola Tesla biographer ~ Provocative essayst • Cosmic Darwinism ~ Technology is Natural •