Xavier Botanic

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POEM 4/56 • TEPID. ACT I: THE WATER CHANGED THE WATER KNOWS. THE STONE REMEMBERS. 🌊 - Sea-goat believes that’s the very first thing The ocean misunderstood. An assumption the ocean swam with, To justify the ocean’s rising flood. - Five lines doing a lot of work. Because sometimes the problem isn’t just that somebody makes an assumption. It’s what happens afterward when everything else gets interpreted through it. - Once the ocean decides what the sea-goat is, every new wave can be used as proof that the original assumption must have been right. - And that is how a bad premise starts building its own flood. - Tepid. is poem 4 of 56 from The Water Knows. The Stone Remembers. - 🌊 Follow for Poem 5/56: Forecast - 🎬 The complete 49-minute film with all six parts is already on YT through the link in my BI-0. - ✍️ Petition + GFM are there too. If you’ve ever watched one assumption become the lens through which everything else was judged, share this one. - #SpokenWordPoetry #WorkplaceCulture #Bias #PoetryTok #TheWaterKnows

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POEM 5/56 • FORECAST ACT I: THE WATER CHANGED THE WATER KNOWS. THE STONE REMEMBERS. 🌊 - The sea-goat already knew. Sea-goat already knew from early on, what was happening, and what was wrong. Before some apologized, Before others told it lies… re-affirming what the sea-goat already knew. Before conversations, bit-by-bit, found their ways back to it, re-affirming what the sea-goat already knew. Before some sent screenshots, Thought new and unseen. Evidence of that which it was already keen. re-affirming what the sea-goat already knew. Before murky depths could be distorted enough. Before oceans tried stopping sea-goats from measuring how rough. The sea-goat already knew. It already knew every name. It already knew every conversation. It already knew each individual hand, each piece, and their motions. Because. The water changed. It knew something swam upstream, Hoping to poison the water downstream. - The evidence that arrived later wasn’t the beginning of knowing. It was confirmation. That distinction matters throughout this story. Sometimes you notice the current changing long before somebody hands you a screenshot, admits what happened, or finally tells you what was being said somewhere you couldn’t hear it. - Forecast is poem 5 of 56 from The Water Knows. The Stone Remembers. 🌊 Follow for Poem 6/56: Backstrokes 🎬 Want the entire story now? The complete 49-minute film with all six parts is on my YT, linked in BI-0. ✍️ Petition + GoFundMe are also in my BI-0. If you’ve ever had information arrive later that confirmed something you had already been noticing, share this with someone who understands that feeling. #SpokenWordPoetry #TrustYourself #Documentation #PoetryTok #TheWaterKnows

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POEM 6/56 • BACKSTROKES ACT I: THE WATER CHANGED THE WATER KNOWS. THE STONE REMEMBERS. 🌊 - And when with each of you It spoke, Is when each of you, It asked. What is going on? It asked. Has my very approach ever made you uncomfortable? It asked. Did I do something to cause harm? It asked. Did something I did cause something happen? It asked. Why are you all treating me this way? It asked. Is there anything I can do or change? It asked. To make this environment not such a danger to my mental and physical health? It asked. It asked. It asked. This last It asked repeatedly. Not only to you, but also itself. When It approached and asked directly “please speak of what you know,” It was neither confused nor lacking knowledge of the vicious undertow. - Sometimes a question isn’t an admission that you don’t know. Sometimes you ask because you’re giving another person the opportunity to answer for themselves. To explain. To correct something. To tell you something you haven’t heard yet. Or simply to choose whether they’re going to tell the truth when the door is open. That is what Backstrokes means in my story. 🌊 Follow for Poem 7/56: Lifeboat 🎬 The complete 49-minute film with all six parts is already on my YT Link in BI-0. ✍️ Petition + GoFundMe are also linked there. Have you ever asked someone a question when you already knew part of the answer, because you wanted to see what they would say? #SpokenWordPoetry #Accountability #WorkplaceCulture #PoetryTok #thewaterknows