FUTURE SUTURES
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i slept. i ate. i watered the plants. i had a dream set inside a computer screen and a dream about bales of hay rolling backwards up a hill. i watched a film about a woman blowing up power lines. i read a novel about another woman getting trapped behind an invisible wall. i read stories about the worst things i'd ever heard and all of them were true. i unplugged all my appliances, closed my eyes and watched the afterimage. things happened in the sky but it was never dark enough to see them. i made a fire. i made a group chat. i invited people over to my house to listen to our old cassettes. i roasted a pile of roots. i made a savory pie. i made a shrub out of cherries and geranium leaves. i turned the pages. i read a story about a hospital. i read a story about a raft. i read a story about bodies. they were always so heavy, or else they were light as air. i condemned the military and i condemned the coast guard. i condemned science and photography and algorithms and cars. i condemned myself. i dreamed that i was trapped on top of a building during a mass shooting with nowhere to go, and i was sure in the dream that i had experienced the same thing many times before. i learned to sew from a pattern. i missed an appointment. i wondered about the problem of sonar and the movement of whales. i marveled at the logic of dreams and condemned the logic of large language models, though i couldn't explain the difference between them. i forgot how to speak but went on speaking anyway. i waved to my neighbor when i saw him across town. i learned a new alphabet. i listened to a radio special on lullabies. i dreamed that i was a bird flying down my own street, getting tangled in a tree.