now here this

"Bleary-eyed, I realize a place where all of existence serves as each of the lazy diodes on a tired streaming digital banner, plodding along its message and failing to allure in this ocean of holographic marvels.
I saw myself walk by it all too many times to count.
I don't remember ever seeing anything else."


I share the same telephone with one million other people and a bunch of inbound callers all expecting a particular person to answer.