it is 2025. we wonder what to say next, and the wind is still blowing.

sixteen.

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right on smile when
starts coming back back right
on smile when the smile
when the but smile when how we
can't smile the sun starts
coming back back right on on cue
of these right right on on
we can't remember lines
and lines so many that the we
breathe somehow in in still
glowing incense smoke in
breathe lungs lungs and somehow
becoming our breathe and.
questions it laughing! questions
. funny we sun how we help
but it funny how we can't
smile when the sun starts
coming can't funny questions.
laughing it it smile when the the
we can't starts these
colors whose we can't the stick
is still glowing lungs we
breathe forget to ask we
questions breathe we we forget but
on cue when back right
starts can't remember so many.
we remember that the
glowing in our and we we breathe.
we we isn't but smile when
starts coming back these
colors whose names names we
can't can't remember many
lines remember that that the
we is still we breathe
breathe we isn't it funny how
smile coming back right lines
and lines whose names we
can't lines and so the incense
is remember. remember. we
in our lungs we breathe and
breathe questions questions..
to. we breathe we breathe
and we breathe. we we forget
funny how help but smile when
help but smile when the sun of
these lines remember that the
stick of still glowing the of
incense is still glowing and we
breathe. and ask questions
questions breathe breathe and. we
forget to ask. isn't it how we
sun back right colors whose
names we and we the remember
that the we many lines. we is
still and somehow becoming
smoke we we isn't it funny how
we can't help but back
right starts coming

five.

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quietingly, the
softmurmurs not trying to say
anything in particular or
convince anyone of anything,
prefering to let things just exist
the way they are and stay the
same when they need to stay
the same and change when
they need to change, or not
even need to stay the same or
need to change but maybe
instead want to stay the same or
want to change, or rather: it
just happens. it just
happens, and it keeps just
happening. the softmurmers not
even speaking about what's
going on or what's not going on
but instead just
mentioning about whatever is on
their mind at that moment,
letting it out and letting it go,
the sound waves not
disappearing but echoing off a
thousand surfaces and every
blade of grass, split and
muffled and distorted and
echoed until they sound like
dead trees, the sun pushing
the waves around a little
through the screen door, gnats
in the air just sort of
moving around.

seven.

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tangling wires into
these bizarre shapes, rugs
with strange colors and
melodies waitingly, taking deep
breaths before the speech where
we finally speak our
minds: "won't everybody
please, please stop this
cruelty? can't we see how
unnecessary it is?" some glass
window creaking under winds,
some oil spilled in a parking
lot. how again the why's and
who's before and after or some
some behind throughingly, a
manual for writers of research
papers about electrical
engineering and game theory,
complex analysis and early
marxist painting; the
walls of this place have
shoulders that are
sagging, somewhere in these
pages an actual answer to a
question that matters. a new pair
of jeans, a holiday
decoration left up for months, a
lightbulb which doesn't fit even
though we could have sworn the
size was right at the store.
color combinations making us
feel sick and wonder why we
care about the dissonance,
why we should prefer one to
the other. we conclude that
we're all just bits of air
moving with the waves of some
song we can't hear: now
banging on the wooddrums, the
thoughts and the doubts, hopes or
imaginations throwing fists at the
organ keyboard, some body of
loud waters, some
electrical structure groaning in
rains particles trapped in
the breezings, the sine
waves, the eyeballs thrown
left and right or up and down
or is that a sign of
happiness, of
peacefulness? who's to tell what's
harmony and what's dissonance?
who's to tell the words of the
song when each moment's just
a few bits of data? hard to
see the picture from a
pixel, hard to find the poem
through a word a letter an inkdot
the arounds and behinds
lost somewhere in the mix,
the breath being exhaled
before we even noticed it was
inside our bodies, each note
rising just a little higher or
just a little more like dirty
wallpaper: we ask each other where
it happened. where the
music got faster. where the
blue became green, where the
light was switched on and the
newer waves began to
interfere with things and distort
the shapes, canceling out
or multiplying or
performing more complicated
operations until the noise is noise
and the signal is noise and
the noise is still noise yet
somehow wider, more sideways
and spinningly and
uppingly and backwardly, more
harsh and out of sync, now neon
colorlines and batteries, strange
gaps in the spiral not
patterns but something about
them which makes us feel the
walls are moving further away
and the room is becoming
smaller, that one moment is
another and the second hand is
somehow different this time
around. we cannot help but go to
sleep again, this time with a
strange smile and already
looking forward to coffee. this
time with socks and a thicker
blanket. this time with the
windows open: and in comes the
cooler air.

thirty.

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second a question comes
to our which is so why think
question to begin with moment or
how or how laugh. we laugh we
laugh wonder we wonder what
might be, really that nothing
unexpected in return in return you
answer to answer. to unable:
“who: ?” unable to then cry.
then we. why these questions
seems like every or second
which more of are read bad
handwriting. we we, and we laugh. we
wonder what might wonder what
wonder years that nothing
really changes ask unexpected
return: “who and we in return:
“who are we and to answer.
know we to laugh, and laugh
can't we see why laugh laugh.
can't. can't we see why laugh
and laugh, and laugh. laugh
. first place when it
place like every minute the
first or second a comes to our,
think of we are begin with at or
how handwriting. might be
might nothing or years or if
nothing ever we ask ourselves an
unexpected in return: “who are and
don't we don't we and we then we
begin then we begin to then we
begin and laugh and these
questions are so or second or our
like important a good begin
with able to, and,. we years.
ourselves an ourselves an
question an unexpected question
answer unable to answer. cry.
laugh. see why these
questions so aimless first why
seems to our ears is important
with at the moment or how are
able read bad. actually
years if or if the idea return
are: “who

seventeen.

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marbles in a glass bowl,
not going anywhere in
particular seeming to wonder where
the birds get their
melodies, their strange rhythms
tinkling or rubbing cardboard.
the dark bottle looking
right back, eyes glimmering
so loudly with the
sunlight or fluorescent
flickerings or uncharged
batteries. the lithium looking for
water. how's this different?
asking between colorshades
and subject matter like it
were important or something
or something or something
or anothersong
thismomentingly or an old box of cereal,
casting shadows longer than
expected somehow while the light
reflects in its own color onto the
walls and the nearby desk
surface, papers scattered from
months before piled over each
other, some important some not
so much, some with colors
and blindly drawn
paintings and some printed out
from an old black and white
laser jet printer, whatever
that means, whatever those
meaning.

twenty three.

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out to be without a story
without a these with the bucket,
screams fists and violins and
best circles on from other
room and moment the this
piece of whole room we can a
moment about anything don't
know if are but somehow.
don't because would more
happy, more like the arm the
bit and we us what it is, what
every person and object is the
. us in the eyes being by
transformed which bits so resonant,
how wonder if in the it be
part of a joke without a
punchline without a last one and
facts falling into the same
bucket, the hugs, the. circles
of voices from the other
changing every moment all around
sun is landing how whole is
feel it on our a moment we
don't think all are repeating
somehow don't don't care
because would never sun glowing
our music just wind keeps,
and we in an instant
everything

twenty nine.

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worrying ) what might be
we cross we intention to
begin with, going across
lines going to word which
bounces through going with
going with we somehow can't
but is that we ever even
think about like numbers and
days of , happening sound
like they down much about
scheduling start thinking might be
for cross in place of when we
are writing without sense
begin with going going
straight next word which bounces
through bounces it and with it .
we suspect that things
just happen somehow and we
suspect that things just
somehow and we suspect things
just happen somehow that
things just help but is that we
ever even about things
numbers and of at the same time
like if suspect nobody is if
they write things down as
they listened much about
scheduling worrying so much (not
worrying tomorrow or when, just
going by and going the it still
going with it. smile a little
that even like numbers and
days of like even of think
numbers of things the same
suspect they is ) and to listen to
write things down as we stop )
about one without any
particular sense of intention to
one by one with a scratchy
pen and going straight to
the next through ear just
and still just just going
with it going with it. it
still just things just happen
somehow and we but and it is that
we ever about things like
numbers of , time were to ) and if
they listened . stop so much
start thinking might place of
another when writing without
any particular sense
writing without, just going
across lines on next word which
bounces through our ear which
bounces ear just it still going
still just it and and then
can't help but smile it we
about things and things
happening at the week, the week
things days week, what two time
might like if someone were to
they to we

nineteen.

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the corner of the room
empty except for the little
grooves in the floorboard, we
smile. the moments going and
going in such a beautiful way
that we can't take our eyes
off it, noticing just how
inconsistent things are, how blurry
and arbitrary the
differences seem between things and
people and ideas, how musical a
painting can sound the ink never
seems to dry.

fifteen.

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maybe if there more time
. maybe if there was if
there was more time was more
time but but there isn't
isn't. the there . emails of of
of them ever just keep
arriving and ceiling keep emails
just keep arriving and to and
none, stories,
possibilities tree to weigh,
incomprehensible incomprehensible
options fanning out, to weigh.
we weigh. some. we end up
options after. just we seems,
where. all these we left them
them them. all calling for
different responses, different.
we ways of different ways
of these different
circumstances calling for smiling. we
smiling dealing and smiling
know why us these social
gestures amplifying across why
they thought the they it many
things going many going on all
at single car in this
traffic jam more piano.. maybe.
but the piano. maybe if
there struggle there was more
more time. the time. there
ceiling but the piano struggle
struggle every jam , a different
struggle piano piano. the. .
maybe if was more. the there
was more time. but seeming
like just another ceiling
arriving seem to branching out
fanning out into options out
into fanning out tree ,
options after, options weigh
impossible to weigh. with the one we
that just going with the
going with the as any we saw,
for now

eighteen.

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systems all around us
and our lives fracturing
breaking apart piece by piece as
we keep trying to glue
things back together with
words and theories and poems
and cathedrals
architectures in the mind and and later
in concrete, we begin to
feel jittery as we realize we
haven't stood up in hours, this
chair and its arms a little too
narrow, pressing against the
sides of our skulls, plurals
and singulars not having so
much significance to us now
when the lights are
flickering so subtly. we pray but
don't know who we are praying
to who we are praying for,
what we want, what we should
want. fading. fading.

twenty six.

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trangles into other
things, making themselves up
the always seem to and and
each and relationships up up
behind each pushing buttons
and dominoes which always
always seem geometries and
relationships pushing which pushing
in always seem to to fall
fall in the going wrong
direction direction intended,
could again. ideas and
interactions all these a smile. and
happens happens trangles into
other things, shapes shapes
sort up behind each other
which. not in which always the
geometries seem to fall in. not
going the or intended could
could thoughts thoughts
again goals ideas and. goals
sneaking into the point. goals
again. ideas and and concrete
interactions.. ideas and and while it
it all all just just
happens outlines outlines of
squares and trangles
themselves relationships
dominoes which fall in always
seem to not going the way fall
in in the not going the
direction fall in the buttons
wrong direction the way
intended, but into the that
sneaking again. ideas and, all
these colors smile smile
smile happens, shapes sort of
making themselves
relationships fall., could into
interactions concrete colors and
ideas ideas permeating while
just smile. it all
permeating while a a smile. and
trangles themselves trangles
into into shapes into other
things other, shapes each each
other themselves
relationships pushing buttons
geometries to way we expected
expected or intended, but the the
point. thoughts again. into
the thoughts interactions
.. all these these colors
and ideas watch with a smile
while we

four.

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it's hard to speak
sometimes. we are frustrated with
ourselves for our
inconsistencies once at peace and
allowing things to be just the way
they are and want to be,
always taking action and never
taking action,
leftandrighting with the leftandright
once again wishing things
were a different way or that
the coin had landed on the
other face; we can't figure
out who we are, and we aren't
quite sure if that question
leads anywhere hard to find
the energy to say anything,
too many responses waiting
behind each option which never
seem to go anywhere
positive, anywhere that doesn't
hurt anybody or dissipate
into the grass as if nothing
had happened in the first
place and we begin to wonder if
anything actually did or does
happen or if we had somehow just
thought it all up out of some kind
of desperation and
confusion aimed at nothing in
particular, cycles going back and
forth but never quite the same
way, always surprising
somehow and adding to the
confusion and lack of any sense of
place, the feeling that we are
nowhere and the feeling that we
are getting nowhere.

twenty.

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the smell of damp sticks
from outside. a slowmoving
sound. we notice how
everything is so pink maybe we
remember why, but for now we
don't. “can it stay like this
for a while?” and, for once,
it does.

twenty two.

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crackling angles , we
all breathe for a while and
the sound and we keep
sniffling from seasonal
allergies sound of people
laughing people laughing and
warmer but more and another not
? the vibrations inside
are aware our actions .
making this fuzzy the sun
outside to fuzzy kind while.
where, crackling , the keep
making that sound and sound . at
the of at

ten.

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we ask ourselves some
question we can't hear, muffled
because our heads are
underwater, this cold sensation
pressing on our foreheads while
we feel our socks becoming
heavy, cottonfibers grabbing
skin and dragging behind our
feet, cold passing between
our toes. maroon painted
walls and a thick sweater,
crinkling plastic bag full of
snacks. we notice it is becoming
later every moment, and that
as soon as we count one
number there is another in
front of that, always room for
another one or zero or eighty
seven or pencilcase
dirtyshoe, these power outlets
rusting over even though we
can't see where the water
could have come from fading in
the carpet telling which
way people walk most
without asking why they walk it
so often when it seems
there are so, so many other
ways to go and that this way
isn't even the easiest or most
efficient or beautiful or
surprising: they are taking the path
because it is the path they take,
and we can't help but
laughalittle at how beautiful that is
not to say that one is better
than another or that anyone
is wrong for going the way
they do or that we think we are
better than going that
particular way to the couch, but
that we know in the end we are
going to go that way too and
that's just fine. it's just as
good an option as any so we
don't see a reason why not it's
beautiful enough and it's
surprising enough and that itself
may be the most beautiful
and surprising thing of all
at the moment.

two.

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because the longer we
stare at the details, the less
we are sure they even
matter.

twenty seven.

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, how behind the desk
happened on a and for a moment
moment our bodies that it open
the windows to open warm
enough . we breathe and windows
now . sensation in notice
small dents we ask ourselves
what wooden walls of paint
every of every and walls of of
paint every face face of we
care a lot about knot in the on
purpose of if on our eyes for a
moment and for are floating
outside we floating , in the
incense is somehow in our
foreheads , that warm now we in our
hands stinging sensation we
floorboard and where they each
groove and scrape panels along
the and the wooden of paint
every freckle and scratch on
on lot about wires behind
the desk these things just
sort. a we our our like
outside be warm breathe this
stinging ourselves in the they
floorboard and they groove the
wooden panels panels scrape
what caused the wooden every
of

three.

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how did we get here? the
questions which keep making their
way inside our mouths as if
we never could learn from
the last time we couldn't
answer and instead only become
more unhappy and began to
throw things at the walls with
some inexpressible anger
screaming and shouting with a red
face and bulging veins,
fists again and again against
the door not even caring
what's on the other side, too
caught up with the idea of the
door being there in the first
place another why and another
if causing the lights to
flicker and the stove to begin to
smell like something is
burning so we all try to remember
what we had done in the
kitchen last but we can't
remember, and even the attempts to
remember make us shout with fewer
words, make us scream with our
fingers and pound harder and
harder on the door while the
wood is splintering here and
there and the doorframe
appears to budge this time or
that time or this time again
and again and again

eight.

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we accidentally
imagine ourselves as having for
a head this strangely
shaped box or a bird feeder with
a triangular roof or
something similar and we are
sitting in the front passenger
seat of an old car and someone
we care a lot about asks,
who are you? and we
think for a minute, and then
another. we aren't able to answer
with anything except a held
hand, and we somehow find
ourselves caring more about them
just because they asked.
they can't answer either,
and the grip gets tighter
and they aren't making eye
contact but that's okay because
we aren't looking anyway
and we are both these
strange wooden boxes attached
to bodies, heads without
eyes which still say so much,
eyes without laughinglines
which always find new things
to smile about an itch
behind our ears, the way this
piece of paper falls on the
ground, the sound of an overhead
lamp switching on laughing
about nothing in particular
and everything in
particular, wanting to want
everything and wanting to want
nothing, to feel everything and
to feel nothing, or at
least something the grip
getting tighter and we remember
how okay it is, how
beautiful it is and how funny it is
that poetry and music might
be the same thing after
all, that hiding is okay
sometimes and being naked is okay
too, that sometimes things
lead to other things, and
sometimes they don't, and
sometimes things just happen and
they keep just happening and
they don't stop. they don't
stop and it seems like they
never will, so it starts
making sense to just accept
this and close our eyes and
smile a little but somehow
this feels impossible. we
get frustrated and start to
do things we don't want to
do, blaming other people
for things nobody had
control over in the first place
and jumping to conclusions
and making assumptions
about other people and their
intentions and what they want or
what they are afraid of. we
forget that they are us, that
their grip is getting tighter
and that nothing is okay for
them either. we remember
that their boxy head is
crying and we have been trying
not to notice. we remember
that we are all the same
person born into different
bodies, and that this is a
beautiful thing. this is a
beautiful thing. this is a
beautiful thing.

twenty eight.

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, and we at the matter we
glance at the eight it's eight
clock the clock and wonder
isn't now we notice behind us,
our shadow of hair the it
around into different the wind
moves shapes. ink well. the
somehow misread or word help us
something and help think of
something otherwise appropriate
. a and let it go. eyes and
just listen to the wind and
and feel the sun warming our
legs. wonder what could our
we we wonder if anything
could prepare us sounds of

six.

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silence and quiet now. a
small voice humming and
laughing in the other room. a
crystal or some melting snow.
behinds toward while again
around where's or why's while
leftandright shrinking silently. a
wooden creak. a scratch. all
centers things happening all
around, things just happening
and just being the way they
are. and we realize that this
is a beautiful thing. that
this is a beautiful thing.

thirty one.

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near spoiled also
having no control over
ourselves, our thoughts, a this
this, if we watch we
following a single green speck in
its same time together with
the crowd and crowd and same
a goal and just falling
just for hours doing
supposedly doing for playing some
role in some call society,
pushed defined, vaguely

eleven.

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we keep asking
questions like “will this make me
happy?” when instead it might be
more interesting to ask what
it would sound like if the
leaves on every tree were poems
written on little sheets of
paper and everybody in the
world began to read them out
loud all at the same time and
then the wind began to blow
and the poems went flying in
the air all around and
everybody just watched it happen
in complete silence we
can't help but smile a little,
and then a lot. and someone
hugs the stranger to their
left and we all begin to
laugh. we ask ourselves
another question we can't hear
because of all the wind and
poems, and that's just fine we
realize we didn't want to know
the answers anyway when
there are so many confusing
and beautiful things all
around us anyway. we just keep
laughing and grabbing poems out
of the air, sometimes
deciding to read them and
othertimes using them as napkins.
the wind, the wind is
laughing too.

twelve.

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we never seem to notice
the changes until they've
already happened. or at least
they are well into
happening. we wonder why that is:
the clouds evaporating and
the sun coming out, the air
getting so slightly warmer; a
single row of bricks painted a
different color. who the behinds
through before how's and where
when whenever the
againagain the words repeatingly
as we notice a little
cottonfluff drifting toward us. it
sticks to our ink, and we ask
again where meaning comes
from. a million coins being
thrown every instant, fields
of possibility so
terrifyingly wide staring us in the
eye so intensely we have to
look away and we notice this
little bug just flying around,
landing, and flying around
again. flying, landing, and
flying around again.

fourteen.

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clock seems little a
counterpoint the care. agains the.
agains the wayingsong behind
and beforemaroon the eyes
again again with questions
eyes again with questions
and ideas how to color when
with as usual working as be
working usual clunks and
woodenbits we suggest and agains
the wayingsong a a we or
behind to while while behind
the eyelids, a and ideas how
to see are it these it seems
the be working as as those as
be working as usual with
those as little clunks and
little we a counterpoint..
agains the wayingsong a we or to
while behind or to while
behind the underthere and
under a when we stuck but clock
and we the counterpoint.
and the and the to care, and
beforemaroon, the eyes again a color
when inside the as with those
clunks and woodenbits we
suggest a stays stays the
conversation and nobody the and stays
the the conversation and
nobody while,, the the
questions again questions and
under a see slowly all moving
little fingers and woodenbits
we suggest and agains
wayingsong agains the or to a to
while behind and underthere,
the a a the eyes and ideas
color when stuck things all
moving things the slowly but
the to be counterpoint. and
the conversation stays the
same and stays and the same
seems to care. agains the
wayingsong a we eyelids , and the
with ideas questions and and
these things all clock to as
usual with those fingers and
suggest a suggest a
counterpoint. and to care about the
the wind wayingsong.
agains the we behind eyelids,,
the eyes, again questions
and under we are stuck
inside it all moving so slowly
but so but the clock be
counterpoint and the stays the really
same and nobody seems seems
to really really seems to
really wayingsong a the
eyelids , and underthere, the
eyes and under when we are
inside we we are stuck stuck
inside it these things all
slowly but so the

one.

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and just like that, the
page turns for us. the next
series of random numbers fill
the screen and we begin to
imagine dots and we begin to
connect them and agree and
disagree with them, relate to
them and question them and
share them. the page glares.
we glare. everybody is
glaring and nobody is laughing
and then one of us starts
laughing, and another one of us
starts laughing, and we are all
laughing and the paper is
laughing and the inkdots are
laughing: the numbers are
laughing too.

thirteen.

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we wait for a few minutes
and wonder if it would be
okay for us to ask now: "is
this beautiful?" we wonder
if nobody noticed and we
watch the air just sort of move
around through the leaves. we
take another breath with the
sunlight and feel warmer.
throughs and arounds
behindingly the now nowing while
again the time continues and
stops and continues again.
circles of ink we close our eyes.

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and all at once things
are so quiet, a tiny hiss
from the walls, distant
clanging of a ventilation fan. we
breathe with the sunlight,
passing clouds causing these
little pulses in the sunglow
and somehow we feel it in our
toes even though we can't
quite tell why the wind
chooses the pitches it sings
against the window, why one
harmony should point to
another, why every story has some
sort of climax where
elements and trajectories
culminate into some bigger thing
as if we had been heading
there all along as if there
were some kind of purpose
behind the penscratches or
where this leaf decides to
fall in this rotting pile we
notice a pain in our lower back
from bad posture and some
strange sense of pressure from
the bottom of our right foot
now the ventilation fan
slowing down into a periodic
banging; we notice a coin lying on
the ground but we can't make
out which side it landed on.
do we care? is it good to
care? would it matter if we
knew? we are staring at the
coin and the coin is staring
back.

twenty five.

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with little, a fewer
mistakes. outside becoming
heated while to pretend little
more a little faster and the
do heated aren't
listening a little more accurate
aren't listening our best to.
we best we do heated while
becoming with . the, a little
getting more accurate, a fewer
going with fewer, a getting a
little more we aren't accurate
, the faster and little
faster a conversation going on
the little faster fewer
mistakes. outside conversation
and with fewer heated while
we pretend we aren't
listening pretend best we aren't
listening. getting every little
with fewer mistakes.
accurate. fewer and outside
becoming heated the
conversation going becoming heated
the fewer mistakes. the
fewer mistakes. going best to
a with fewer and a little
faster fewer the conversation
going the conversation.
little faster and with faster
and a and with little a
accurate. every listening. we
heated while mistakes. the
conversation a little faster and with
fewer mistakes. little
faster and little faster and
with fewer the conversation
going on heated while we do our
best do the little faster and
with little faster and with
more a we aren't listening do
while we best getting best to
pretend listening pretend
while our best to do going on
outside do our best we do our
repetition. every repetition
getting a every repetition
getting, a. every repetition
faster a little more faster a
little little faster fewer
mistakes

nine.

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we are breathing. and we
are still breathing. one
thought and another passing by
in the street while we ask
ourselves if this is going
anywhere if we should instead be
focusing on something else like
the way the smoke is
drifting away from the incense
stick, or the sound our eyelids
make when we blink. is there a
place for rushing anymore?
the softmurmurs again,
reminding us about our breath: and
a little blue bird lands
on the windowsill. it is
singing.

twenty four.

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without they and and it
happens that the the and
sometimes they are sometimes it
they , and sometimes
sometimes they are, without
trying not okay , and sometimes
they are, one to trying.,
they are okay they and go from
. and sometimes they are

twenty one.

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we wonder what would
make us happy, what would
make this headache go away
which keeps distracting us
from everything going on the
scratching pens and observations,
a quote out of context we
leave the incense burning
when we go to sleep even
though we know it's a fire
hazard and it puts our lives in
danger and the lives of all the
other people living above and
below us, and all of the people
we know and the people who
care about what happens to us
even though we never asked
them to. we wonder why it
should matter that something
happens to anyone, we wonder why
we care. and everything is
so quiet.
,