The Vanishing Apple

Generations 36-42: gene sequence - that of miscellaneous fruit.

Here are instructions for disappearing, compatible with your multi-grafted root.

1.

We all hold fragile genes prone to disease.

To disappear you must discreetly cough, sneeze and wheeze.

Let your spirit influence others, then disappear, as part of an algorithm.

Follow the path of growth and decay as a natural logarithm.

2.

Walk on the road of the half-life, who has faced lament,

yet maintains a stable heart core that is quiet and content.

Do not distract. Be what others want and crave.

Wear the round crown of a bowler hat to disappear in the wave.

3.

Individuals seek the irrational and transcendental.

To disappear, this is quite instrumental.

Carlos Castaneda, student of Juan Matus, a shaman

describes displacing the ‘assemblage point’ and ‘combusting from within’,

Imagine you are invisible, your matter is destroyed,

keep confident and assured, you are an enigma in the void

4.

Disappear in your stillness.

Show not warmth nor chillness.

Be the son of man, a J. Johnson, who is an invisible part of the crowd.

Keep comments to yourself but offer a heartfelt signal that is loud.

5.

Let your words vanish in hangul filler or Zero Width Space font .

Let others see and read what they want.

The trick is to listen and perhaps ask leading questions.

Nod, praise and appreciate but hide any intentions.

Put yourself in suit, with a white shirt and tie,

or wear a little black frock, to sit on a wall as a fly.

6.

The answer of how to disappear has passed through the ages.

Unite with nature, say the spiritual masters, shamans and sages.

The goal is not to think about who you were or are.

Become an elusive person, who is part of a whole, seen from afar.

Become invisible in the mysterious fog of spirits from the past.

Your new character, if noticed, will become readily recast.

7.

The art of disappearing is very cryptic.

Becoming anonymous verges on an event apocalyptic.

Wait a Gerry William Cotten picking minute.

Could disappearing just require a foreign land visit?

It is said you can arrange to disappear if money is available.

Cryptocurrency buys a certificate of death- perhaps that is a fable.

9.

The question remains as to why we want to disappear.

The answer is comlex: perhaps we have much to fear.

People may have accidie- their apathy lets them disappear in the masses.

Others may leave a great legacy, but they too disappear as ashes.

Is what you do not want others to see something you are ashamed to be,

or in disappearing do you leave a message that lets others shine,

does your material self disappear and your memories become divine?

To disappear, the son of man must understand the apple.

What becomes a gift or curse depends on what you choose to grapple.