complete breakdown of narrative faculties
capture kept remembered in various surrogate hosts. bits and pieces, not
even enough to grow a dream, apparations of undefinable dread in
side-corners of the day. shake and shiver. the archive ate itself,
disappeared within the black of the maw. i cut my right palm with a knife
so i would never forget it but the skin will not hold the memory, the
taste and the pain are not sufficient. i designed an intelligence to tell
stories in my absence but there were complications and now she listens at
the speaker to find glimpses of me in the garbled speech. a blink and the
day was gone, her body left with reminders of things she had not done. she
called and i did not know her voice and i hung up the phone and left so as
not to hear it ring again. bells in the trees, coathanger mobiles with
bits of aluminum and copper so we could find a way to return, until the
day the wind stopped. i can’t breathe.
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