( ? ) Concrete Form is a form poem by Chia Amisola made for the Spring 2023 issue of The HTML Review.
Are you human? Yes No
Would you like to save your progress? Yes No
Please upload a photo that represents yourself.
WALKING RUNNING
SLOWING SPEEDING
NOTHING ALL
WHERE HOW
WANTING KNOWING
LEAVING SEEKING
DREAMING WAKING
HATING LOVING
gender.
Please upload a photo that you took today.
( Checkboxes feel like birds. )
What time is it?
Come love the simplicity of choice, of knowing that every way to explain ourselves must have been by way of the making of someone else, as if the pattern of the living weaves itself into itself, as if living is the practice of returning, of what I had always been must have been the binary of some other.
1. Held hands romantically? 2. Been on a date? 3. Been in a relationship? 4. Danced without leaving room for Jesus? 5. Kissed a non-family member? 6. Kissed a non-family member on the lips? 7. Loved someone? 8. Been loved? 9. Love someone who loves you back? 10. Kissed on the neck? 11. Kissed horizontally? 12. Played a game involving form inputs? 13. Forgotten what to answer? 14. Remembered? 15. ?
Please upload a photo of yourself as a child.
STILL
DAYS
CRUSH
US
FIRST NAME MIDDLE NAME LAST NAME TITLE GENDER AGE ADDRESS RELIGION ADDRESS LINE 1 ADDRESS LINE 2 CITY PROVINCE STATE COUNTRY ZIP CODE NATIONAL ID NUMBER SSN FNIS RACE ETHNICITY PREFERRED NAME CLASS LEVEL BIRTHPLACE MOTHER'S NAME FATHER'S NAME MOTHER'S MAIDEN NAME NUMBER OF SIBLINGS MAILING ADDRESS LINE 1 MAILING ADDRESS LINE 2 ALIEN? NATURALIZATION LAST DATE OF ENTRY DURATION OF STAY STATUS PROGRAM ENGLISH PROFICIENCY ENGLISH PROFICIENCY NOTES EARLIEST ADMISSION DATE COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP DATE ISSUED ESTIMATED AVERAGE COSTS REMARKS ATTESTATION EMAIL ADDRESS NAME OF PRINCIPAL PLASE OF BUSINESS SIGNATURE EXPIRATION DATE COMMISSION NUMBER EDUCATION LEVEL MAJOR 1 MAJOR 2 SEX TERMS AND CONDITIONS CATEGORY COUNTRY OF BIRTH COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP VALID FROM
All I do is submit.
What's ahead?
What's before us?
What's to come?
Is this almost over?
Can you tell me where I can find you? Yes No
Can I ever know you?
I'm everything that was taken
I'm none of my names
I'm nothing before me
I'm everything I could be
I'm all the futures
I'm each of my permutations
I'm nameless
I'm nothing bestowed
I'm what wasn't
I'm all the languages
I'm every place
I'm what was found
I'm all my names
I'm nothing written
I'm what was answered
I'm what was asked for
I'm given to myself
I'm unanswered for

And in knowing myself
I thought I could know
you
us
all there was
If all this life is about , what was the first thing I
Please upload your earliest memory.
What's your favorite word?
What's your favorite colour?
What's your favorite question?
Who's your favorite person?
Who loves you more than you love yourself?
Who is left to forgive?
Who didn't know?
Where were you born?
Where are you going next?
Where will you be when it all ends?
Where does a memory begin?
Why couldn't you have done it?
Why does the body age?
Why are you doing this to yourself?
In the event of an emergency, who should we contact?
And what is their number?
DEFINING BEING
NAMING SEEING
KNOWING WANTING
WAITING BECOMING
EXPLAIN LEAVE
1. Became what you wanted? 2. Named yourself—yourself? 3. Experienced a moment of joy that wasn't for your own? 4. Created more than you consumed? 5. Believed in people, truly? 6. Understood your place in this world? 7. Gave a piece of your life for something? 8. Reverted something you thought couldn't be undone? 9. Chose to end your own worlds? 10. Told a story that was yours to tell? 11. Listened to anyone but yourself? 12. Remembered what was at the very beginning? 13. Accepted a conclusion that was only offered to you? 14. Determined what holds meaning for you? 15. Know what this is all for? 16. Believe that this time was carried for something? 17. ...Or that nothing has to have visible meaning? 18. Waited for purpose when it was not there? 19. Allowed no one to fill you but yourself? 20. Answered for someone when no one else could?
I confirm that this is what I want.
Wait with me for a while.
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What did you lose?
When did you come?
How did you know?
Was that your name? Yes No
Was it, you? Yes No
This has always been concrete.
1. Are you loved?
1. C is loved.
And I picked you.
Please upload your desire.
All we do is submit.
All I wanted was to be
I'm where I was
I'm where I've never been
I'm where I was unwanted
I'm where I was loved
I'm where I was unneeded
I'm where I found you
I'm where I found myself
I'm where I will be
I'm where I will be coming
I'm where I wanted everything
I'm where I despised myself
I'm where I thought to end it
Did you want to be human? Yes No
Did you want to be known? Yes No
Did you want to be named? Yes No
Did you want to be classified? Yes No
What did you want to be called?
I wanted to be known.
What did you want to be asked?
So let me ask you:
I've gotten what I wanted.
At this time we will make it.
And when I named myself
I gave reason for everyone else
to want to say my name
I gave myself
meaning as I declared it
and no one asked
until I knew myself
Please upload who you are.
Everything was a question.
And we waited for you.
And we wait.
And in this moment, you were always known.
And in this moment, you are always heard.
And in this moment, you are all of your names.
Type your name as it appears.
Are you a complete thing?
Is this complete? Yes No
Would you like to submit this form? Yes No
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