Backward reasoning

[Doreen Peri]

This is an exercise in backward reasoning.
My hypothesis began at the end of the axon
where neurons fire. I am wired for plasticity,
despite and because of trauma.

Stay with me now.
This is a simple exercise.
Let's start at the end.

At all costs,
no matter the losses,
I refuse to participate
in the drama of confusing thought.
Battles have been fought in
synaptic connections, at
sensory cortex intersections.

Some were won. Many more
were ignored. In quite a few,
I was defeated.
But adaptation has
not been depleted.

I am studying the brain map.
This is a determined
resurrection following the
inspection of an
under-active word circuit.

I will use my wits,
both dim and nit,
integrate electronic misfiring.
Rewiring can be inspiring.

Some are named insane,
some inept.
I circumspect all possibilities.
When figuring out
where it all begins,
it isn't a sin to
try going backwards.

Start at the grave
with complete deterioration.
After the annihilation
comes a new creation...

which reminds me to address
the problem of population explosion.
There are way too many cars on the road.
We could remedy this
if people would simply decide
to stop coming back for another ride.
I don't understand what type of elation
they all get from reincarnation.

And that brings us back to the head.
Some of us may be better off dead.

But this is an exercise in
backward reasoning, remember?
What would seasons be like
if we started with December
and backed up into fall then
summer. then spring?

I am studying the brain map.
This is a determined word resurrection.
It is an utterly simple thing.

Here's the spin.
It is over.
Let us begin.

[whoaisme]

got lost a couple times but i do LOVE the way you ended this piece. or shold i say the way you begun this piece?

keep writing hard, Doreen!

[Doreen Peri]

Don't worry, whoaisme ... i was lost the the whole time.

Ton, using the backward reasoning in the piece, I never even wrote it so there's nothing to come back to.

[dune]

Haha!
"Backward reasoning" might actually help sort things out, the way it's gone lately ...

[the mingo]

so we begin post-orgasmic and go reverse to the first glance? it's all too complicated for me no matter what the direction

[shadowplay]

I like backwards
I like backmasking
I like back engineering
I reeeeeally like back rubs

[Doreen Peri]

I've been backrubbed from the
reverse glance of a pre-engineered
photographic direction, glanced at
like a resurrection of a wolf call,
fallen out with inability to handle
it all, called by picked-up lines,
dropped on my head, dreadlocks
blocked around ears

[katydid]

I love this. I could feel the probes in my post-apoclyptic amygdla

[the mingo]

I could feel the probes in my post-apoclyptic amygdla

cracked me up ! Earthquake hour on Marshmallow Island !

[Doreen Peri]

Thanks, Katydid. Welcome.