Is there anything that makes you invincible? Can you coat yourself in kevlar? Some new invention of polymer chemistry? Ballistic panels and stab protection. Blunt force resistance and polycarbonate shields. You try to be normal. You enter the world in riot gear. Defensive. Fragile. Scared...
From a bed in a bedroom, to a bathroom, to a mirror, to a kitchen, to a sink, to a stove. Through the vertical rectangles with a handle or a knob, into a garage, into a car. From the squared off edges of a parking lot, yellow and white lined squares within, into a office building. We live in a world of little boxes...
The bratty child, already developing a taste for self-loathing and deceit. Desperate for attention. Never satisfied. Never sated. Always wanting more. It's easy to forget that was me...
At some point we all have to consider why we do the things we do, why we pursue what we pursue. Especially when the world is so loud. When it all seems so futile. When the most harrowing of questions on our every exhalation, after "how's my breath?" is "why bother, what's the use?