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we accidentally imagine
by andrew yoon
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we accidentally imagine
by andrew yoon
seed 7711577
it is 2025. we wonder what to say next,
and the wind is still blowing.
there. emails just
arriving them be branching out
into tree, options after
options impossible to weigh we
end and that up we going we
that, looking for our
instincts but we we left them . all
these different, different
ways of we smiling we don't
know us smiled and are don't
know know why one of us smiled
amplifying across one these social
gestures amplifying across one
of us first us smiled of
joke they didn't even
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.
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.
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.
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.
so all moving these but
so so slowly slowly but the
clock be working as usual with
and woodenbits. and the
conversation stays seems to care wind
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.
because the longer we
stare at the details, the less
we are sure they even
matter.
they and and sometimes
they are, that we go the and
and sometimes they we other
sometimes they are, and to the
sometimes. sometimes are, we
happens to the and sometimes
sometimes they, go from one to the
other trying and, one to
things happens that go from and
sometimes things are not okay, and
sometimes sometimes they are, and
we go that without even
trying and sometimes things
are not and sometimes we go
from even trying. and
sometimes things are not,, and we
go the other to the other
without okay go from one to the
other without even sometimes
things even and are, we go other
without even trying . and
sometimes even trying. and from
from the things are happens
to the sometimes without
even things things okay go
one other other without
they are, and sometimes to
the other sometimes things
they they are go even one go
from one and sometimes
without even are not they it
happens to trying , and
sometimes they are, go from one
okay, and things not okay ,
and, and without even
trying things are, and one .
okay and sometimes things
are, and one without even
trying . and sometimes things
things not okay are from one to
the without without even
trying. and sometimes without
even are not okay and
sometimes they sometimes
sometimes happens that we
sometimes are trying. even trying
sometimes sometimes things are
not okay, are, we go from one
happens one sometimes
sometimes sometimes happens that
it happens that , and go
from to trying. and
sometimes things not and
sometimes to okay and things are
are, and that one to the
without even not okay , it
happens that we go from not,
without even sometimes. and
sometimes things are not.
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.
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.
for now we don't we “can
for it for a while ?” and once
, it sticks slowmoving
sound of damp. . the smell a.
everything is so pink but it this for
a while ?” once , it does
damp. pink maybe now we ,
don't . “can while for does
from smell of damp sticks
from outside sound. we
notice how everything is a
slowmoving sound . we everything is
so slowmoving how so maybe
, but so maybe we notice
slowmoving sound . we notice
slowmoving sound how everything is
so pink don't stay don't.
“can like this “can it stay
like while ?” does. of damp
sticks from smell from outside
slowmoving sound . sticks from does
a slowmoving sound. pink
. and, it a the sticks
everything. we notice so we it stay
like this for once, smell
outside. a slowmoving sound we
remember for . remember why, but
for now we while like this
for don't. “can, for once ?”
this and, for while ?” and, it
does of damp, . slowmoving
from outside. damp sticks it
does. outside.. sticks how.
we notice how everything
remember why for now we don't.
“can it stay once, it does
damp sticks from outside..
the damp sticks from
outside notice so pink maybe we
but we remember don't for a
while ?” and, for does of damp
sticks the. how everything is
we notice maybe is so pink
how sound notice is so pink .
. a slowmoving sound. we
notice pink maybe but for don't
. stay once, the smell for
from smell of damp outside. a
slowmoving sound we so pink how
everything pink maybe why, maybe we
it ?” this now we don't. and
once, it does damp sticks
from outside . we notice is so
pink . we why,
of week, like and if
listen (we suspect nobody ) to
if were trying to write
down stop they we stop
worrying so as . we stop worrying
about we without with one with
a which bounces going
suspect happen suspect that
things just and then laugh at
think about like numbers and
about things like days of
things happening time if to
listen (we suspect nobody is )
and if listen (we suspect
nobody is ) and they were
suspect were listen nobody is )
and they trying . we stop
worrying so. we stop worrying
books and about scheduling )
about books and start
tomorrow or why in cross thing
breakfast what might be for
breakfast worrying ) and about
thinking worrying ) breakfast
tomorrow or why we one
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.
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.
going the other room
notice the temperature
changing every moment all is
landing room glowing we on don't
. we things but we don't
care and caring about that
never made us happy, more
laughing on our blood is glowing
music just keeps going, wind
keeps little bit, and able to
what is object is the air sort
these eyes, the floorboards
and transformed of kinetic
energy pushes bits wonder wood
how squirrels climb trees
the a punchline, a sentence
clinging to one, and the fists and
violins the timer our best
pretending not ink going hear
muffled voices from the other
and we can't help but, how
piece of paper how whole we can
somehow moment things
repeating themselves we and
that's caring never have made
us more happy or feel more
sun our and the music just
going keeps pushing and we
keep see for person and how
the air these the eyes by
kind of kinetic so resonant,
how squirrels climb in the
out to joke without a a these
bricks clinging to rock after
into the the screams and the
hugs, paints violins
ticking best not to notice.
circles of ink going around on
while other room notice every
moment the sun landing on this
how and our skin moment
anything at. if are repeating
themselves perfectly feel more sun
is the music just the
around a little bit, and we keep
smiling and in an for it is what is
doing, moves around these
eyes without being absorbed
some and is and. we wonder end
it will to a punchline a
sentence. these , opinions and
falling into same, the hugs the
timer we keep of ink going
around on themselves and the
all and how the whole room is
glowing it on our skin and we
anything at all are repeating but
care perfectly okay because
caring that like on our and our
blood skin going, the and in an
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.
starts coming right on
smile when the sun back on cue
can't lines and and many lines
. we remember the still
glowing and smoke lungs we
breathe and and we we breathe. we
we we we forget to ask we we
breathe. laughing! isn't it
funny how we can't help but
smile when the sun on cue we
can't lines. we lines and that
the becoming incense is of
incense our to ask questions.
isn't isn't. laughing! smile
can't help but smile when the
starts coming shades of colors
whose and we many lines and and
so so and is still that the
stick lines we the stick lines
remember and glowing incense is
of incense is and somehow
becoming smoke our lungs lungs
breathe and breathe. we forget
breathe and we we we forget to it
smile coming back on whose
names names names we can't
remember lines and lines and so
many stick lines the we lines
the the we remember lines we
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.
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
really maybe the leaves
decided leaves decided or or to
grow in such or urge or felt
some need or urge to a way a way
come we know by our sitting
don't see us so or maybe they
noticed us looking away and
quietly understood that it's
say anything, that
sometimes. we don't know . and out
sight. thing glance at the and
wonder the behind us, shadow
front of us . notice how
strange looks it around into
different shapes. we try to smear
ink well so well and we that
us somehow misread a word
or note us somehow misread
a might somehow
something ,. we question the idea
of. relevancy for just
listen wind the sun warming
legs our legs could just
really we wonder if matter
sounds the, pointing toward
their destination as they as
learned the place . all and
leaving because even dams and
dams and enormous and fade
eventually things just do what they
they do what they do what they
always were always were in come
, if maybe something
really be there, that the
decided or felt some felt some
need urge to that when
branches someone so us and
quietly understood that
sometimes it's okay anything that
sometimes we sometimes that can
just be ourselves . we don't
know of sight matter, and we
glance at now we and, that the is
behind in we notice how moves it
around into hand paper so well
and remains. well and
remains perfectly legible that
make us somehow misread a us
think of something we
wouldn't but maybe technique be
better ,.. we the wind sun
warming our, really just about
anything from come this what this
this just prepare us and to
the sounds of we've
laughter conversation we've
conversation, destination to
learned about the place . events
going leaving any sort of
permanent without leaving any
sort of permanent even and
dams mark dams and and and
things just do what always try
going. we try from, whether we
it if could, the leaves
decided urge way that these. now
someone walking by now and
walking and know comes walking
by our sitting place ,
don't up so they anything us so
they or . or . or okay say not
say really out of sight
thing doesn't and we happens
which and we glance at the we is
us . we our to smear lead
sticks to well so well legible
were hoping
. every repetition
listening. every repetition
accurate, a. best to pretend we
aren't we. with little faster
and little more getting,
faster little more faster and
outside pretend we more we more
accurate little more accurate, a
repetition getting a every
repetition getting we aren't
accurate, little more getting
more accurate, with fewer
heated aren't listening.
little getting best to pretend
we aren't listening.
every repetition getting a
little getting a aren't to do to
heated while outside becoming
heated while to pretend little
more a a conversation going
on the conversation
outside becoming our while
listening. every repetition
getting and with fewer the
conversation heated while the
conversation a more accurate, faster
and outside becoming
heated while we do our best to a
every repetition listening a
with accurate, a repetition
faster and with. a little
faster and the conversation
outside becoming on the
conversation going on outside
becoming heated while we do
heated best going the on we do
our best do our best to
pretend we best to pretend we
aren't listening we best to
pretend we to pretend we aren't
listening. every repetition
accurate
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.
fall which not going the
way maybe point into the
point.. sneaking into the and
and interactions again.
the ideas and and ideas
permeating a smile just happens..
it all of sort of things
making things,, shapes
themselves up behind behind the
geometries seem to fall in we be the
sneaking and interactions
concrete. spray into into the.
spray into into the thoughts
again . spray all these colors
concrete, spray paints all these
colors and ideas smile. and
happens into other other of
making each and relationships
in in. fall which always
seem to fall direction. but
be the point
on purpose of if on own a
moment and feel our bodies,
outside our like are and for a
bodies we are floating might
outside might be warm warm warm
enough. we this stinging
sensation small came from along
the paint every freckle a
behind someone it on purpose
changed or really
changes we ask ourselves in and
we begin to then we begin to
we see why we. laugh. are it
minute second which so, think
we are able we and to are
able to read bad we laugh we
laugh wonder be nothing ever
really changes and we: “who and
we are. begin laugh and
then begin to. can't we see it
every minute our minute or
second minute or second, so so,
so much like like we can't
with the moment at or and we
laugh what be and we laugh. we
anything changed over these
years nothing ever really
nothing really changes and
changes in “who are we ?” are
unable to answer. and then
begin then we begin and we
begin laugh, and laugh we see
seems like every minute or
ears, so much think of
question begin with to with at
with at to read to read bad
laugh and we, and we laugh bad
handwriting, and we if anything
really changes. we changes we
reject the question in return:
answer. and then we begin to
laugh, and laugh see why these
aimless in so it a when place when
it seems like every minute
every minute or second
question comes so much more
important like why we or how or we
are able to. how we laugh and
we we wonder what if
nothing. reject the ask
unexpected question in changes:
“who are answer. we don't
then we laugh see why so
aimless are so questions are the
first place when it place when
place the first place when
question comes to ears or
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.
we . smile at the
windchimes and we hear we feel not
warmer but but okay more okay
feel not warmer but but .
slantingway another not ? time lean
ears closer trying but
notice to notice . and just
breathe for we pause and breathe
for we pause a while. where
again the thisthat , by again
and again crackling a while
names for or have don't
recognize we for had a and colors;
we are not a few shuffling a
down is we haven't seen in a in
a long time ago we back the
sun came is from sound left
back on back fans we
themselves the galaxies the their
own, wondering it,
hurtling will finally stop for a
against which whyhow and
growing, shapes never leading
to situations expect in
situations where in situations
where things to don't have
don't
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.
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.
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.