The Sleep of the Living
Millions live like this, and perhaps dying is precisely this—the slow, rhythmic ingestion of the mundane. They work in offices, moving files from one side of the mahogany expanse to the other, marking time with the mechanical pulse of a clock that measures not life, but the consumption of it. They drive a car, that steel shell designed to isolate the soul from the wind, to ensure that the view of the world remains framed, safely distant. They picnic with their families, arranged in perfect, sterile squares of green grass, and they raise children, planting seeds of their own quiet, … Continue reading The Sleep of the Living