• they/them

a cloud between the sky

and the earth

avatar by @SweetSidhe


neocities, my main home
oriananonexistent.neocities.org/
the cohost forum test project, and wherever it goes after
eggbugstestplace.jcink.net/index.php?showuser=2
the website league once it's ready. i'll be exactly who you think i am
websiteleague.org/

oriananonexistent
@oriananonexistent


were you kind enough? i can't answer that for you. i helped create this world, and i understand even less now. we liberated ourself into new forms of uncertainty. you dodge my eyes, avoiding confrontation, and i look away because i don't like doing my own thing.

another explosion and the sky rushes in to meet me. a skyscraper meets the end of its life. i think they said that in its place a different kind of density will flourish. i am apprehensive. i promised i wouldn't pull a david byrne but i am not quite here with everyone else.

the town square is empty tonight. i hold my phone to the kiosk. a week's worth of news and articles and messages flow into me. nothing flows out. my thoughts are still trying to break through the soil. i have watered them. maybe to death. maybe the soil's the problem.

i don't want to go home yet. home can wait till tomorrow. i find an unoccupied hammock on an outer loop train and stare at the horizon, inwards towards downtown. the town glows like the embers of some old fire, one that should have been put out of its misery long ago, but is too kind to succumb. the stars dot the sky without shame or fear.

when i wake, it's to the sound of the mechanized announcer informing me that i'm miles from home. birds and foxes dance together in the morning sun.

i have to eat again. sorry.

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