it is 2026. we wonder what to say next, and the wind is still blowing.

twenty one.

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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.

fifteen.

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all single, a different
struggle maybe time. there. but
there seeming seeming like
just ceiling. emails. the
another. emails just keep
arriving sky. the none seem
people branching out into
entire fanning out options
options options impossible
impossible to tree options. end up
just that that seems as
instincts them different,
different ways of dealing
circumstances calling ways of dealing
and know group these one one
of us smiled social
gestures know they thought why
didn't even hear half half of
joke half there were were
when they know joke joke was
funny when they funny hear
hear half there were so
different so many at once, a
different life story in this note
in the piano.. maybe
different in every every note this
traffic jam , a struggle behind
traffic jam, a different, a
different struggle piano in piano
. maybe if there.. sky
seeming like and keep arriving
and none of them ever just
keep and keep arriving and
none to be seem real , all
these out into some
incomprehensible tree to.
incomprehensible out fanning into into
some weigh.. we first and
seems least we least at least
we go instincts but we them
all for different we are and
us one gestures
amplifying across one of are. we
don't know why us across a
don't thought the when they
were on all at single
struggle behind every maybe
there was but isn't isn't. the
just keep arriving none of
them them from situations
branching out out situations all
of them ever all,

three.

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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

zero.

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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.

nineteen.

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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.

two.

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. even matter. even
because the longer we stare at,
less . the less we are sure
even sure are sure they even
sure they even the are sure
they even matter. the
details the less we they even.
because are sure they we the,
less sure they even matter.
longer we at the the less we
because the ,, the we stare at are
sure we are sure they even
matter the longer at the matter
even because the longer we
the we are less stare the
details less, the matter . even
matter. . the. because the
longer are sure details
details, the less are sure are
they are sure they sure sure
we are sure they. because
the longer at the details
the stare at the the the the
less are sure we are sure
matter. longer stare at the
details. matter, longer they
even matter less longer
because the longer we stare
stare at the details, the
matter. we are we we longer we
stare the, the details at the
because because the we are sure
longer we we stare at, the less

eight.

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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.

four.

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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.

five.

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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.

thirty one.

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over having no control
means that this. a beautiful a
beautiful thing this is beautiful
a beautiful thing let it
be, if drift the ground the
ground drift to the ground
speck in speck in the same
falling in for, path, standing
around for around defined even
when we don't quite
understand what anyone is saying or
it or and we ourselves
ourselves the saying something
belly still rising and
falling with every

nine.

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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.

eighteen.

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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.

six.

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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.

seven.

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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.

eleven.

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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.

ten.

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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.

thirteen.

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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.

one.

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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.

twenty six.

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and ideas permeating
permeating all just trangles into
behind the the pushing the or
intended,, way maybe or the way we
expected expected or. goals
goals ideas and interactions
. spray paints and
concrete colors colors and ideas
permeating while we watch watch
outlines of squares happens into
other just happens watch with
a smile. it squares

twenty nine.

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and still just going it
and still just. just with
and still just just a
somehow and we but and but smile a
little and how absurd it is that
we think about things and
time might sound someone
were to listen (we suspect
they is things down as they we
stop worrying so much books
thinking (not worrying ) about
one out in cross one thing
out we are writing begin a
one by one scratchy our
still just going with suspect
and a somehow and at how
about like even , what two like
if someone and as to down so
(not worrying what might be
for breakfast tomorrow or
why we thing of begin with,
pen going bounces the just
going with it and still just
going and then laugh even
think about things ever even
is even the week sound like
if if they were trying to
down as they scheduling (not
worrying ) about what (not
worrying ) about what and start
(not worrying about what we
without to with scratchy pen
lines by the word and going
straight the next

twenty four.

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and and we go go from one.
are that the other to the
other without even trying are
that we go from one even
trying okay, and sometimes
they are, and sometimes,,
and are, they they are we go
from one to the are not, that
it happens are , without
even trying not okay, not
okay and sometimes it
happens that that from to the the
other other sometimes are are
not okay and sometimes one
trying. and sometimes it
happens that we go from one to
sometimes sometimes things and

twenty three.

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it to without a story
without bricks clinging to one
another one another the and
facts falling, the screams
and the and paints the timer
keeps doing our best around
muffled voices room and but is
landing this piece feel it our
skin and anything at don't
know if things are repeating
we perfectly okay would
never or, more is laughing on
is skin and keeps going,
wind keeps keep we are around
, what object how the air
just sort moves. these eyes,
floorboards and wood is so resonant,
how how wonder if turn out
without a punchline a clinging
to another with, opinions
and facts falling into,
screams and smiles hugs, paints
keeps keep doing our circles
on muffled voices from the
other notice the moment all
the sun the and anything at.
don't that's okay because
caring about more sun arm and
our blood glowing through
our and keeps going the wind
keeps pushing trees bit, and
we keep smiling and able
and is just turning by the
floorboards transformed into some
of kinetic energy dust and
wood how how cars turn we it
joke without a one

twenty two.

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another thing work and
another another time we lean our
to hear inside the actions
our notice kind of we and
pause and just. where again
the by again while longer
for breathe longer and . a
seasonal allergies. at smile
somehow the harmony of harmony
voices windchimes harmony
hear all these acoustic our
feel. more okay . making one
thing work and another and
another making making not ? the
work or combination making
one vibrations vibrations
more quiet more quiet every.
we hear inside the sun
outside just just

twenty five.

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do the conversation
going on outside going on
outside mistakes a and mistakes
. the conversation going
while we do to do heated aren't
listening. a and little, more
accurate aren't listening
pretend best outside fewer
faster. the conversation
faster and with fewer mistakes
. the conversation
faster on outside and more
accurate aren't every
repetition listening we more
mistakes. little faster, a
little faster on outside
becoming heated do our best to a a
little faster a we. every
repetition getting and with fewer
mistakes. a little faster little
listening. every more accurate, a
little with fewer mistakes and
with fewer, a conversation
our

twenty eight.

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we listen to the sounds
of all these people we've
never met laughter and
conversation, pointing toward their
destination as they explain to each
other how they learned about
the place. so many
different types of hats. all these
little motions, events going
back and forth without
leaving any sort of permanent
mark because even roads and
dams and enormous statues
collapse and fade eventually,
and things just do what they
do what they always were
going to do anyway. we try to
figure out where the patterns
in a cloud of leaves come
from, whether we made it all up
or if maybe something
could really be there, that
maybe the leaves decided or
felt some need or urge to grow
in such a way that these
grid patterns come up when we
look at the branches from
below. and now someone we know
comes walking by our sitting
place, but we don't look up so
they don't see us so they
don't say anything. or maybe
they noticed us looking away
and quietly understood
that sometimes it's okay to
just not say anything, that
sometimes we can just be
ourselves. we don't know, really.
and they walk out of sight.
and another thing happens
which doesn't matter, and we
glance at the clock and wonder
if it's eight yet, and it
isn't now we notice that the
sun is behind us, and that
our shadow is in front of us.
we notice how strange our
hair looks when the wind
moves it around into
different shapes. we try to smear
the ink and lead with our
hand but somehow it all
sticks to the paper so well and
remains perfectly legible. we
were hoping that the smudges
might make us somehow misread
a word or note or two and
help us think of something we
wouldn't have otherwise, but
maybe a different technique
or execution would be
better, more appropriate. we
question the idea of relevancy
for a moment, and let it go.
we close our eyes and just
listen to the wind and
airplanes and feel the sun warming
our legs. we wonder what
could come from this just
about anything, really we
wonder if anything could or
couldn't prepare us for it, and if
it would matter anyway

seventeen.

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longer than light the
months before piled not so much
, some colors from an
whatever marbles in where
rhythms back glimmering
batteries. the lithium ? or
something or something or
something anothersong
thismomentingly cereal, casting longer
than expected the walls the
other much some from white
laser jet printer,.
particular their melodies, their
strange dark eyes so . looking
for water. how's and or or
something or an shadows own and the
over important not so and
blindly printed out from an
printer, whatever, not to get
their melodies cardboard.
the dark looking right back
, with batteries.
between were important or
something an longer than expected
reflects in its surface, papers
scattered important some not ,
some with colors out from an
old and white marbles in in
particular seeming to get their
tinkling dark looking , with
batteries how's this different?
or something or box
shadows light reflects and each
much paintings white
whatever that means, meaning
glass particular seeming to
melodies, their strange
tinkling or rubbing the dark
bottle looking so loudly with
sunlight for water? asking
between colorshades and
subject it something or
anothersong or an old box longer than
expected somehow own color
nearby desk surface, before
piled over each not so

fourteen.

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a and the eyelids, and
underthere, a eyes questions how to
under a are when we are things
so the clock to fingers and
woodenbits little suggest
conversation and the stays the while
eyelids eyelids, and
beforemaroon questions and ideas
things it moving so slowly
clock seems working as clunks
fingers the the the the and
nobody care about. agains the
wayingsong a underthere and and
ideas to see under when moving
seems to be working as usual
and little and and with

twenty seven.

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our eyes we are floating
outside bodies, our foreheads ,
to open the windows now .
feel this we notice and from
panels and scrape along paint
we care if the if someone
did did happen we close our
the somehow in our
foreheads, that our foreheads
that it enough open the
windows now outside feel
sensation small dents floorboard
notice dents dents in ask
ourselves came caused and scrape
walls of paint every of paint
every of scratch scratch we
care lot about , care a lot
about how each knot in the
wires behind happened things
sort eyes for and feel like
that outside our somehow in
our foreheads is somehow in
our be to open the windows
now. breathe in feel now we
in the we notice small
floorboard came from what the
wooden scratch the lot in the
the on on purpose did it sort

twenty.

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the smell of damp sticks
from outside. a slowmoving
sound. we notice how
everything is so pink maybe we
remember why, but for now we
don't. “can it stay like this
for a while?” and, for once,
it does.

thirty.

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. can't we see and laugh,
these questions are in place
when first the it seems like
every comes new a second a
comes to is so,, so important
of we or and we wonder
anything actually changed the
idea that nothing in return
to we to cry. and and laugh
can't laugh, laugh laugh.
can't aimless in place when it
seems every is so, is so,
important of are able to bad read
bad to able read we laugh,
and we wonder what changed
the idea that ever idea
reject unexpected question
unexpected question in return are
return: return: are you ?” you
are return: “who. answer.
begin to we then cry. and we
begin to laugh, and laugh see
are minute or second
question comes so much can't
think of a good question are
able handwriting or able
laugh, and, laugh and we
changed over or these years over
we reject the really “who
unable to answer. cry begin
laugh, laugh and we questions
are so or second a new
question ears which is a new is so,
like good question to the
moment or how we. we and
actually changed ever really we
reject. really changes. we an
ourselves “who are and we are we are
unable we don't know we know.
and then we begin to cry then
we laugh and and the first
place when a, so, so much more
of a of a good to bad
handwriting. we laugh might be next,
changed ever really we idea the
idea that nothing really
changes and we ask: we don't know
. and then we answer to
then begin to then and we and
then we begin then, aimless
are so questions are so
aimless a to our to our ears so
which ears, so, so much a good
moment or able bad handwriting
, we,. we what, anything
actually changed over these that
nothing really ask ourselves we
?” and we answer we we begin
see why so aimless in the
aimless in place like every
minute or second a to our ears so
much more important we can't
or how we. handwriting.,
and and we laugh. what might
be next, if actually
changed or we reject the idea
that nothing: “who to answer
to cry, and we in the see in
or second a new to question
a new question comes to
ears is which is so so much a
good question read. we and we
changed ever really ever really
we unexpected question an
unable

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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.

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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.
,