Frankie Drayus

Truth Table

If life is a series
of if/then statements

a binary condition
ignoring quantum possibilities

Then if “1” is TRUE
TRUE being what was desired

because TRUE is not a matter of absolutes
but rather what is requested;

That means 0 equals FALSE, FALSE meaning:
that which was not desired /not requested.

Some gates are contrary
as are some truths

Even so even then
As with a CNOT gate, for example:

If what I want is for you to contradict it
Then I will permit it to escape.

Because everything is admitted—
ALL may enter

But not all will be TRUE
And thus not all
May escape

Then what?
Then what happens?

If your conditions
are determined to be FALSE
If “you” are a zero
when my language requested a one
OR
If “you” are “not one”
and that is what makes you untrue

Where do “you” go?

All the caged inputs—
The prisons within prisons within prisons—

Whatever amounts to “you” enters a room
Where all the lights are suddenly switched off

There is no door
There is no thing

I do not know whether “you”
Cease to be

Considering I am a lake
I am a lake considering

And as long as I continue
To be found TRUE
I will continue

As long as I continue
To be found

As a lake I wonder:
Can I continue
And NOT be found?

if I do not understand the machine
in which my edges are apparent
in which I find my own level—

if I do not understand
that which contains me

How do I ensure my safety?
How do I stay TRUE?

For many years I’ve been writing about and around Thirdness while pushing against binary constraints. These poems are part of a larger work called Quantum State, which examines consciousness and truth in the binary world of zeroes and ones, where every action is either true/false, and also in the quantum world (particularly of computing, but also beyond) where more than one state can be “true” at the same time. Even the fact that we can put “truth” in quotes intrigues me.
— Frankie Drayus