Engineering Jetpack MidFall

A tinkerer's guide to self-repairing

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Portrait of Anadi Mishra at a cafe holding a cup of coffee

Anadi Mishra

1 minJune 11, 2026
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Fasting triceps, calcifying myriad of sadness,
evolving tautology of hubris,
Diverging, refracting, convulsing,
too much intensity, pulsing dark blood debt

Mystifying kindness, holistic offset,
braiding damage with beads of smouldering brightness

Petridish be serving mutating innards,
spicy infestation, vice crowned floaters,
degrading sinners, magnifying winners

Splitting protrusions, melancholic dimensions,
Where did I go wrong with these flaccid compulsions,
the segregated attrition?

Wishing for the wish to transform these famished hallucinations,
make me whole, beautiful lotus,
surgical machinations of candied infusions

I want to feel again, those liminal illusions of tonal completions
How do I deflate these ballooning emotions of terrifying proportions

Burst this bludgeoned contusion and divert to propulsion,
Make rockets at home, amateur hour,
tool construction into systematic ignition,
discovered infinite tower, assembling connection

Gravity too immense, failure predictably imminent,
would I be crazy to say then,
arrived at joyfully winged satisfaction,
a sublime deviation

Thump, crash, broken, intact, ow ow ow,
this mutation is brutal, yet, again, again,
crazy joyful blast,
making bruised fanart from figurative dance and laughs