Newly Abridged Happiness Manual, Vol II is a conceptual poem by award-winning poet Ana María Caballero that explores the tension between time and mind, between what we tell ourselves and what our thoughts tell us.

Our emotional states are underpinned by the unspoken words that traverse our minds as thought. To examine these words is to examine the intimate scaffolding that sustains our outward-facing selves. This poem does so with humor, compassion, and straightforward honesty, highlighting both the mundane and contradictory nature of thought.

Consisting of twenty-four short verses, this work explores the evolution–or lack thereof–of thought along the vast axis of time. Sloganeering statements of self-improvement and assertive grasps for the transcendental interrupt expressions of routine, of place, of physicality.

By rethinking the same thoughts, are we essentially reliving a single day?

The collector of each of the twenty-four verses will receive a version of this poem built on Async's 24hr canvas, in which each verse is displayed for sixty minutes, cycling ad infinitum.

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