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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