Thursday, July 07, 2011

Thousand: Four Hundred Twenty-Nine

on the floor. His head is already larger than it was, the cathedral’s second storey, as it were. His feet would be a long way away if that didn’t include all of him. If your ears are a long way away, what does that mean for toenails? But that’s okay. An atom is almost empty, and it doesn’t think of itself as empty. An atom feels rather full, Bernie decided. Definitively. He came to this conclusion a long time past. A half a breath ago. I know the feeling, Bernie imagines saying to the atom, which has confided in him.

2 comments:

Elisabeth said...

Poor old empty atom, so deluded.

Glenn Ingersoll said...

The fullest emptiness in the universe!