Tagged: excuses
in the early days of
in the early days of
discovering
teleportation, people flocked
in and out of
cities, towns, endangered
ecosystems, any
place they could
imagine.
not even six months
in, people began
to make up new and old
excuses for why they
couldn’t drop in on
loved ones, spend any
more time than before
teleportation – tractor-beam
malfunction, severed spatial
eliminator widgets, quantum
dissociation syndrome,
the cost, work, dog duties.
the excuses couldn’t
have imagined better
champions, we can
stop imagining teleportation
.
20211109:1858
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days after the snow
days after the snow
storm, in the middle of a
pandemic, we will
find the excuses stacking
up at the foot of our door
.
20210204:1952
y
we are ninety-three
we are ninety-three
traditions away from under-
standing each other,
sixty excuses from trying,
one yield away from accepting
.
20201217:2047
y
Spielberg, Harvey… and
Spielberg, Harvey… and
God goes the current tally
for Oscar acknowledgements.
not knowing anything
about Spielberg,
Harvey and God as both
Punisher and Redeemer
take the win
.
20171021:0655
y
sooner or later,
sooner or later,
or for some time already,
we will find ourselves
in the same shoes, one
against the faceless
many who conjure
corporate legalese
that secures them
a place at the table –
in the board room,
we are all little men,
forgetting
and unforgetting
we do this to ourselves
.
20170411:0752
y
afterwards, we lie
afterwards, we lie
in bed, trading
reasons why
we would never work –
when you reach one
million and three,
i gather up the
sheets and say let’s
do this again
some other time
.
20140306:2223
y
we can call it an
there is something
there is something
about the
airport that sucks
an entire day
away, tucks it into
the little granular
pockets sewn into
the inside of its
black hole –
something that
brings people
together, or tears
people away
from their
better selves
.
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y
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