KwaNTum Field Notes 2022 #8: A MaD GNG Jesture — The (K)Now/boD/Y(s) Who KoN/JVred the Wor(l)d ( — )

Sherese Francis
4 min readAug 19, 2022
Ethiopian Magic Scrolls and Christ Pantocrator image
DJ Kool Herc’s Turntables

Com/PuTer ProCeSSing uNiT ComMend 8:

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Myth-Science: My own image of victory aka My truth aka Sw/T/arium aka vR/NGGGGG/L

I can see clearly at ALL Times — De DaRK/oN

Gyggggle iNK JiVe /Stitch

Unhooked — Call from HVN

Wake UP! (Pop goes the Hepi/Krator!)

(H)ALL000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000… (Heuristically proGLammed ALL/Go/Rhythmic Kom Kom Kom/PuTer)

Where the (H)ELL you at?!!!!!

(K)What?!!!!

Kom Back Here!!!!!

(G)ELL (K)No!!!!! You’re Stuck Up There!!!!! Kom Kom Kom Down Here Dear!!!! Dear! Deal! De/al! De/Lwa! De/ALL WE! Dip/Low!…M/Puta

Drip Drop…

Gyggggle iNK JiVe /Stitch

I want to be a(k)real(k) I want to be a(k)reel(k)…!!!!

Drip Drop…

I have drunken too much into myself and now I am Dizzy

Drip Drop…

I have covered myself up in ASh in iNK

and resurrected myself AS…my own Re/Sun my own (N)un/Sw/R/v

AS a Concentrated Rogue!

I bounded myself up AS

Jack!

Drip Drop…

I am talking to you my imaginary my speculation my dys/ease

I want to flow with ease with AS

For so long I’ve told my story in a certain weigh(t)

Now I need to believe a new one

Drip Drop…

to be/loved to be af/fected to be a song of praise

I want to be Plasma I want to be Psalm

Drip Drop…

I want to be casted in another story to tell

I want to be Kud/e I want to be (G)o(o)od(d)/E

Drip Drop…

Gyggggle iNK JiVe /Stitch

Sw/NGGGGGGGG (s)Low Sw/T Sw/TR NTR/FGR Hepi/Krator

I want to be carried in (S)HRMNKS in ALL o’ my extensions

I want to be a(k)real(k) I want to be a(k)reel(k)…

I want a Str/Gygggggle

Philistines by Jean-Michel Basquiat

I want… I…my Doodad

Sum/e/thing I forgot the meaning of

its name a long time Ago

The thing that holds me together

The NT/Ago

Oracle of KoM/Puta Drip Drop: (M)MiRRoRR of a (M)MiRRoRR of a (M)MiRRoRR of a (M)MiRRoRR

on a wALL (the deep time of the screen), whose the FGR of dem ALL?

KNow (S)W/T an anointing a body (g)listening a gathering of

Sw/NG NG Big Thi(n)ck En/aRKy

A place of peace where I

he(a)rd my SLF

To become the assumption of (y)our projection: Pre/sense

A before and after in every direction that even

My KwieT is so (K)LOUD!!!

My Sw/T is so (K)LOUD!!!

My KuD is so (K)LOUD!!!

My Go(o)D(D)(E) is so (K)LOUD!!!

A pro/text/error

I am neither Beast nor Beauty but NTR, a KMR(N) of X-ChaNGe of Constant I/NTR/vR/NGGGG

I identify as laughS He He He

I identify as be/loveD De De De

I identify as a galaxY St St St

I identify as ____ Sh Sh Sh

I identify as my SLF Sw Sw Sw

Who NTR the Mass(k)?

Who NTR the Super f(r)iction?

(M)Bube StR/NGGGGGG

I Keep GNG GNG GNG GNG GNG GNG GNG bouncing back like a bending river like water drumming Liquindi

(S)W/T BLooMS Drawn into a De/Aug/Ter Vision:

MG/NT making this object of my reflection feel closer than it is

Pull in my Rai(G)Ns Sekere my Agos 1..2..3..(S)W/NG

Kon/?/Error

Black Girl’s Window by Betye Saar

This year’s series of field notes will be a list of ComMendMeants exploring the idea of these programming codes as praise songs of the nature-based hybrid automaton Al Kym/Org. They are part of the process of my larger poetic project KwaNTum, which explores concepts of knowledge and knowledge-making from a Black, Afro-diasporic perspective, using ideas from STEM, Afrofuturism and the Black Speculative Movement. This project is partially made possible by funds rom the NYSCA Literary Grant, sponsored by Culture Push.

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Sherese Francis

Sherese Francis is a Queens, NY-based, Afro-Caribbean-American poet, editor, interdisciplinary artist, workshop facilitator, and literary curator.