Go ahead and measure yourself and see how happy you get. 

But we’ve come so far. 0 to 10 will tell me everything. There are rulers and they have to measure something we wouldn’t make something so exact for no reason I mean there are companies that only make a thing that measures other things. 

She died a few days later. It wasn’t make believe after that. She was in a building that caught fire and her body was in the way. Water, water, and water couldn’t do shit against fire and that is the thing I will always remember. Water only eventually wins because the fire got too lazy. It never needed the things it burned and it will be just fine when you put it out. 

1’s reminder didn’t hold up with the rest of them. I heard her. Still, fuck that. If the air wants to take me down then so be it how the hell can I fight the air. 

3 thought this ridiculous and 2 was not any more interested than the leaf was interested in me. I breathe, 4 notices, 1 complains, 3 laughs, and 2 listened as an airplane went by above our heads. There is a sacrifice among all of us and we expect it now. The normal is abnormal and the abhorrent is TV. 

I will tell you something. Stories used to exist in the whispers of the wind. Birds flew them from place to place with no regard for superficial nuance. Payloads come and go and come and the places they end up are not the intended recipient. Choosing and choice seems too much for me now. 1 went ahead of the pack as 1 always does, moving across the obstacle course like a deer under the spell of smelly grass.

There are fresh cuttings here. 1 ran their hand through the grass and stabbed it into the air like a boy that just figured out how knives work but doesn’t realize how many times it takes to stab someone to make sure they stay down forever. Keep cutting that grass. Wait a couple weeks. Cut that grass. Wait a couple weeks. Cut that grass. Free labor is all around to make sure that grass stays cut but we have to refuse the freedom. 1, 2, 3, and 4 pay for their tasks. If they didn’t, hypocrisy might overrun everything they have built. 

3 followed 1, their legs stained green with the nonsense of the cycle of cuttings. Maybe we like it so much because green is the opposite of red. Like if air was green we might pay more attention to those things that make the air happen, like the green. Red is too rare and too unnerving for our eyes. It takes a bold man to wear the color that hides underneath all this hunger. I will eat 3 gestures to 2. 2 looked around and saw red in the face of 3 and knew it was so.

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