Fiction Poetry & Thoughts
Bosch reveals the pitfalls of blindly following others, of wanting what they have and propelling a collective greed.
We lose it, manage it, save it, waste it, then wish we had more of it. Time has become a kind of slippery, anxiety inducing method of measuring life, constantly grappled with.
This strained choreography continued agonisingly. His efforts seemed risky with the air thick and rain threatening. Each book, one at a time.
As though I’d crossed an invisible threshold and been sucked into another world…I was shopping in a life-sized doll house.
You’ll be told to say hello to everyone
look them in the eye,
Smiling at a small community - earn your place.
But please don’t tell them everything,
just in case.
As he walks he holds his posture in a V shape, hinging from his hips, his torso leans back, to balance the weight of the huge stomach that cantilevers over his legs.
It’s not so much that the thread is loose… it’s the weighing potential for it to completely unravel. And it’s not only that it could unravel, but that it could do so at an uncontrollable moment, poking a hole in your somewhat crafted self-assurance. Leaving it flailing.