long day of absolutely nothing

Alice came to a fork in the road. "Which road do I take?" she asked.
"Where do you want to go?" responded the Cheshire cat.
"I don't know," Alice answered.
"Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."
~Lewis Carroll

There is evidence in the limited senses. The blinking of space ships, and martian-mormons riding by on their bicycles with capsule-like helmets. These are the things we cling to.

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple. ~Dr Seuss

The aliens are everywhere, breathing like ghosts, they haunt the moments where the apples fail to fall.

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you. ~Friedrich Nietzche

Clean out your locker kid, you're the new king

And fleetingly it seemed to him

That in between one eye blink and the next

Time paused, allowing time to be installed

Within that countless interim,

Coiled up, on hold,

A memory predicted and recalled.

-Stephen Edgar

Lossssss

Speed pressing objects togeather, momentum turning everything slippery and gray.

-Tim O'Brien

Out of dust, like golems,

God created man and woman,

and cast them into chance.

-Paul Hoover

and I can follow the darkness into the night

boldly voicing the hollows it creates

I don't need some moon to howl

or some distant trumpet to charge

all the worlds boldness curled up into a moment

just a spark

the squint of an eye

or the sloppy swing of hips

and I can see things to their end

some flower bloomed and collapsed

in a heap of dampness

I can see her to the door...

Or to my room

either way

the world batters itself against the windows

and I am selfish

to its moaning

Slackers Supple Breeze blowing you're way

Once in a quadruple

If I am going to be drowned--

if I am going to be drowned--if I am going to be drowned, why, in the
name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus
far and contemplate sand and trees?

-Stephen Crane

We stand in semi-circles

smiling sad

all shifting feet and gilded promises

about staying in touch

as if our camaraderie

could span the distance