april 11, 2023
it's all coming apart and we all know it, but we all expected it to be so much more. we expected it to fail like Chernobyl or a thrown piston rod, a suddenly-violent event that alerted everyone it's over and busted, but it's more like wood in the wet, cold winter. it just sags and splinters and hangs on longer than you ever thought it could, stubbornly standing despite its own weight, until it's finally gone and buried in a snowbank.

