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we accidentally imagine
by andrew yoon
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we accidentally imagine
by andrew yoon
seed 6013522
it is 2026. we wonder what to say next,
and the wind is still blowing.
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.
. keep arriving ever to
and keep arriving and none
of people, stories people
, all to ever to to ever
seem to and just of ever seem
to be from people, all
situations, fanning out into some
incomprehensible, weigh . we end up just
with the one saw first now we
we go remember
circumstances calling for different
responses, different ways of
dealing and smiling. we are of
different. and smiling smiling.
for for different
responses these different
circumstances calling for different
responses dealing and know why are
responses, these social gestures
don't know why even even hear
half of it because many
things it because because
there were so many things
going on all at once, a
different life story, a note in
there was more time but
another ceiling arriving from
real situations situations
branching, options after
and with fewer mistakes
while the faster . the faster
fewer mistakes on outside
while we do to pretend little,
a fewer little getting a
little more listening. every
repetition getting a little more
accurate every a little more
accurate, the conversation
outside while our best to on
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getting, a little a a
conversation going on outside
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aren't to a little more
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conversation going on outside while
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might like to listen (we
suspect nobody write things and
if they down as they
listened worrying so much about
worrying scheduling and books
and start thinking (not
what breakfast tomorrow or
why we cross be tomorrow
cross writing sense of
intention one by one a on to the next
word which bounces through
our ear just going it. we
suspect that help but smile a
then laugh at how absurd a
little help somehow and it
little and at how absurd it is
that we ever even think about
it things days happening
sound like if time nobody is )
were to they (we suspect
nobody and suspect and we books
start worrying what might
breakfast of another are any
across lines and bounces
through just just going just we
suspect with it suspect can't
help but smile a little and it
that we like what two things
happening someone were to listen
were trying to write things
and start (not worrying )
about what breakfast
tomorrow or why thing when we
place of begin with across
intention with, lines scratchy
pen and going word which it
just going suspect help how
absurd it laugh at how absurd it
is the what two the week,
like numbers of think about
things and ever at how absurd
things like numbers and ever
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 answer. begin to cry.
and can't we these
questions in aimless a new
question comes to our comes which
why think of a are bad we we
laugh, and.,. if actually if
anything actually changed over
years. these years if nothing
idea changes you. we begin we
begin to laugh. can't these
first place when it seems
minute so so much more of a
important can't with at think of a
important like why like we can't
think we a question to able to
handwriting, and we laugh what
changed over these years if
really. we changes and we ask we
ask and an are “who are you ?”
unable to answer to cry.. laugh
and laugh aimless in
aimless place when seems new is
so, much can't think of a
think a good able to read the we
are to read to read to bad we
laugh, laugh if anything
actually changed years or if
nothing really changes.
changes and we ask and we are you
are you ?” and we don't and we
are unable to answer don't
know and know. we begin and.
can't we in or ears like why we
to begin moment. bad
moment how moment or bad
handwriting. we anything actually
changed over these years or
really reject the idea that
nothing in return: “who are we
and we cry. and then can't
laugh. and laugh are minute or
every so so like begin the
moment or how we read
handwriting, and be, laugh. we
wonder next, laugh. we what
might be nothing really
changes really changes ask
ourselves we we begin to laugh, and
laugh, are so the first place
when every minute or second a
to much more like think of a
good to we to read
handwriting laugh, and laugh
agains the wayingsong a
we or to while behind the
eyelids, and underthere, a
beforemaroon, the eyes again with
questions and ideas how to see
under a color when we are stuck
inside it these things all
moving so slowly but the clock
seems to be working as usual
with those clunks and little
fingers and woodenbits we
suggest a counterpoint. and the
conversation stays the same and
nobody really seems to care
about the wind.
on purpose of if on close
our eyes we close our eyes
eyes a are floating and
outside our the, that it might be
windows in hands ask the ask
ourselves where floorboard from
caused each scrape along the
the wooden scrape face
freckle and scratch of care a the
wires someone did it just sort
happen happen somehow we close
like moment like we are that
the, enough outside to be
that might be enough outside
to open the windows now
breathe and feel this stinging
sensation in now small dents in the
ask ourselves the
floorboard and dents ourselves
where they came and and scrape
every of someone we lot about
the the, of own somehow on
our eyes for a feel like
incense is warm open the windows
now. we now the came from
what each groove and wooden
we care a of a lot about
wires behind the desk
happened, if just happen on close
our like like outside we we
are outside our foreheads
might be enough our feel this
dents floorboard what each
groove panels and paint the
face lot each about,
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.
making against against
the and the thisthat
theringly thisthat the thisthat
theringly, the and again all and we
breathe for a keeps that keep
sniffling sniffling from
seasonal allergies we don't
recognize recognize. smile at
laughing and somehow the the
windchimes and acoustic these
inside our chests and but
making but making us feel not
warmer . not okay combination
another not? quiet sounds. we
this sound against grass a.
where again the thisthat
theringly again , theringly, the
again and again again while
all by a the sun sound and we
bird call we don't recognize
the sound of people
laughing of
in a don't even we don't
remember we had ago we had until
the sun came back or maybe
the or maybe the sound left
playing, or music, playing
music galaxies themselves
own, when for a minute the
doors, the never shapes never
to ones might make sense
make sense some kind things
don't to make sense that
things happen happen they just
as they sort of illusion
away could a step away could
mean allowing even mean
allowing mean things which don't
things which don't make not
happen difference between so
much difference between our
own actions and the
shoelaces food remember that
having no also means, control
over no having no control our
, actions, and that a
beautiful a beautiful thing thing
beautiful thing we let it to the
ground speck in the same time
completely separate completely
separate, at the same a air's,
standing around path job playing
thing we saying or why or why
are saying it or and are
saying it the saying it saying
rising and rising about wooden
thinks about wooden about
wooden cabinets the way are so
many possibilities, a
thought, explain to build up our
sleeves there everyday that the
sky, the sky, a on garbage on
of garbage on our desks.
different tones voice
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.
one to the other trying
are, they not sometimes
they are the things are not
they that we from the other
without sometimes things are
not okay they that
sometimes are, and sometimes go
from other without even even
sometimes things are they it. and
sometimes are not okay are not okay
, and sometimes and
sometimes happens that one. the we
go go from one not they are,
without are not and sometimes it
to the other without and
sometimes not are, , and sometimes
to the other are not okay
and sometimes things are
not we
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.
, trangles into shapes
the buttons always buttons
geometries geometries buttons and
dominoes which in always seem to
fall in in the that could be
the point. goals, but maybe
into interactions. spray
paints and concrete, all with a
smile happens outlines with a
of of making and
relationships seem to the or intended,
. not maybe the thoughts
and interactions concrete
colors and concrete
permeating while we and it trangles
into other things, shapes
shapes sort of other things
other relationships pushing
buttons and direction
direction. not the not going the
way be the point ideas and
paints and interactions goals
sneaking but maybe into
interactions colors and ideas
permeating while we and ideas with a
just happens things, behind
buttons and dominoes the always
direction way we expected going
the intended. goals goals
ideas ideas and interactions
and while we watch watch
just happens into sort of and
relationships pushing buttons and and
relationships seem to dominoes the not
maybe that could. goals be the
point. goals sneaking be we
expected but maybe going that
could, but into maybe that
could into spray paints and
concrete, while we watch
outlines sort of making
themselves trangles into sort
geometries and relationships
other relationships which
always seem. not always going
wrong direction. not
expected or that could goals
sneaking into ideas and and these
colors and. it outlines shapes
sort other things, shapes
themselves relationships pushing
buttons buttons fall in always
buttons and geometries and
other relationships pushing
buttons and seem to and dominoes
to fall in the wrong
direction intended, but the ideas
concrete interactions
interactions. spray paints and
concrete
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.
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.
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.
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.
us in the eyes without
turning by the some of bits of
dust, squirrels if will all
of, story without a bricks
rock glue, one after facts
falling screams, and timer our
best pretending not to
voices notice the changing
every moment all around is on
this piece room is glowing
and we can on a moment
anything repeating themselves
don't care. that's perfectly
okay never have more blood
our skin and pushing around
keep smiling what it person
and these, transformed
into some which pushes makes
so climb trees how
because the longer we
stare at the details, the less
we are sure they even
matter.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
laughing! isn't it
funny how we can't help but
smile when the sun starts
coming back right on cue shades
of these colors whose
names we can't remember lines
and lines and so many lines.
we remember that the stick
of incense is still
glowing and somehow becoming
smoke in our lungs we breathe
and we breathe and we
breathe. we forget to ask
questions.
does. the smell from we
sticks everything is so we, but
for stay for now we don't.
“can it ?” and it for ?” and , it
a while ?” once, a while,
sticks from is so pink maybe we
remember why now why, we ?”, the
smell of from does. the smell
of damp sticks from
outside. the smell of damp
sticks it does. the smell of
damp sticks it smell of damp
outside. a. sticks from smell of
slowmoving sound. we sticks from
sound . everything is so pink
maybe we notice how
everything is we notice how pink
maybe we remember stay like
now “can why now why stay
while ?” once, it a, for.
slowmoving is now a while ?” and, for
once from sound of damp
sticks slowmoving sound
notice how. .. a slowmoving
sound outside sound how but it
once, it of from outside. so
pink how everything pink how
maybe “can for does for once of
damp outside. a slowmoving
sound outside. a smell of damp
, smell a notice, but for.
“can, for once , it does smell
, for like this for a while
. a while, a while ?” smell
of damp sticks a
slowmoving sound of damp sticks the
smell sticks from it does
while the. we is now we this
“can it this while ?” and, for
once from slowmoving we is
why , but we stay like this
“can this “can it stay a while
, for sticks from outside
. damp sticks from
outside. a everything is why,
but for ?” does. damp. a. we
notice how, so maybe we we maybe
we remember for now we
don't for a don't. remember
but for. why, but for now we
?” and, for it a and, like
this ?” and , the . so sound. we
notice how everything is now.
“can
cloud come from whether
we made maybe something it
something could be there, or urge
to at below. now comes
walking comes walking by our ,
but we don't look don't
don't say anything away and
okay to just not say anything
we sometimes we can just of
sight . another thing happens
which sight. clock and wonder
if now , and we notice is
that shadow front of notice
how strange our hair looks
wind moves around with but
somehow the paper so well so well
sticks perfectly legible the
legible . we and remains
perfectly legible . we were hoping
that the legible . so well and
legible . we were make might
misread note something we
wouldn't we but maybe we better,
more appropriate. question
the idea of for let go we sun
warming our what could this just
about anything, really this
from could couldn't it
matter anyway we listen to
listen to the sounds of all
these people we've never of
all these people we've
never of all these met
laughter and conversation and
toward to their destination as
they explain to other how
learned. different
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.