Artificial Realities

‘The Human Trap‘ portrays the failure of the world to reconcile the concepts of evolution and globalization.

At age four, I used to secretly squeeze through the cracks in our backyard fence to go and explore the world on the other side.

the world ran out of people / but we’re still here / we do normal things / take the subway home to / each other hold hands / when no one’s looking

From my desk, I watch her turn the pages. She is meticulous, each touch / feather-light and exact in her dissection.

The purple haze of Jupiter surrounds us in its cool-toned glow.

A swirl of trash – / I’m dodging it. / A gust of nasty wind. / Now you’re about to be / even more remote.

In seeking truth, the internet is the most powerful tool humanity has ever had.

I’m sitting with Larry at a Chipotle in midtown and his thousand-yard stare tells me I might dial the nihilism down a notch.

For six days after the operation, everything was blue.

Seeing Dolores walk in, or someone who looked like a Dolores (he’d had more than a few since clocking out)

It breaks like this: We hold on tightly, and literally, because we’re young and we’re stupid and because we still want to have hope.