the world next door
"The World Next Door," January 11, 2022 (#11)
title from The Gunslinger by Stephen King (1982)
The Matrix Resurrections (2021)
Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich (1984)
one line from the New Yorker's "Facebook and The Murderer" by Steve Coll (April 18, 2017)
The World Next Door
Captain, I'm reading portals from the lower frequencies.
I kept a copy of the pink slip on a yellow slip that I put in a metal filebox.
Vital systems have been meticulously maintained, but it doesn't look good.
It opens, as if a flower bloomed all at once or the moon rode out from
the same stories we've always told, just with different names, different faces.
It came in handy, as well, when he made a sale, although civilian life
thought elements from your past might help ease you into the present.
I knew it was wrong, but by then I had waded so far into my lie
only to learn the world doesn't end when you do. Surprise.
Sing my songs and then bury me high in a tree.
Know how hard it was to hack that mirror?
Not doing so being increasingly glaring.
My predecessor loved precision.
God's been going deaf.
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