instantaneously embracing deception
"Instantaneously Embracing Deception," May 11, 2022 (#131)
original title
Little Bee by Chris Cleave (2008)
The Seventh Plague by James Rollins (2016)
The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West (1939)
last line from The Yogi's Roadmap by Bhāvani Maki (2013)
Instantaneously Embracing Deception
It was the kind of summer where no one took their costume off
the gears turning in the man's head. Before they could work out
naming and discarding a dozen possibilities without a word from
the motorway in my mind as a place I could run back to and kill
the true engine for change. And now more than ever, the world needed
emotions surged up in an enormous wave, curving and rearing, higher
without flapping their wings, upheld on the sea breeze. The rhythm of
trying to fill in the blanks. Tall pole lamps dotted the floor, while elsewhere
the cock's plumage was green, bronze and copper. Its beak was
one of those women who has seen men do things that are not funny,
the same dance to pass out of the tunnel and back into the modern age
to rub its beak and the bird pecked savagely at him. This pleased
the bilateral tension of consciousness' desire to realize itself.
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