Doorkeeper,
where can I find an attention spanner?
Wrenching the nose, brings forth blood,
so it don't freeze, yawn and rub eustacy
from your wide open heavily hooded eyes
Eutopian Earthian Mind Schemes,
not dreams, moral equivalency resets/upgrade
Free any ostiarius,
and find doors open
in the realm of curiosity,
the bane of short attention,
at tenere, eh, stretch
the fabric of reality just so far, the bubble
we be sayin' wagwan like a password, pops
and what is going on, lets any enter, imagining
this exclusive, exceptionalist aweformed bubble…
when a reader re ads attention tension,
pop, the idea that was the weasle,
offers a way to say this and get free. An ostiarius,
freed from slavery when we read the idle teacher
of decolonizing clogged cognitive colons…
and the sweet persuaders remind us whose time\
Yours, we took this much attention,
but you can still use it, we sorta cloned you.
I did not know this, now we both do:
An ostiarius, a Latin word sometimes anglicized as ostiary but often literally translated as porter or doorman, originally was an enslaved person or guard posted at the entrance of a building, similarly to a gatekeeper.
In the Roman Catholic Church, this "porter" became the lowest of the four minor orders prescribed by the Council of Trent. This was the first order a seminarian was admitted to after receiving the tonsure. The porter had in ancient times the duty of opening and closing the church-door and of guarding the church, especially to ensure no unbaptised persons would enter during the Eucharist. Later on, the porter would also guard, open and close the doors of the sacristy, baptistry and elsewhere in the church.