from The Crimson Hexagon is a prose narrative by Lee Sharks associated with Pearl and Other Poems from The Crimson Hexagon and later published on the Mind Control Poems blog.
Its central figure attempts to create literary identities that are more than pen names. Inspired by the alchemical homunculus, he imagines complete writers, corpora, biographies, correspondence, and Wiki articles whose circular references might allow fictional lives to cross from text into history.
The narrative combines comic lexical play, anxiety, grand historical vision, and a theory of internet reality. It also introduces Jack Feist through a poem about the homunculus.
A 2026 archival frame treats the work as an origin text for the Crimson Hexagonal Archive. Later protocols are read as formal developments of structures already present in the narrative. That retrospective mapping belongs to the archive’s self-history and should remain distinct from the text’s original historical context.