she said

“Trains take a long time to get going and to stop.

Mechanical and conductor errors can be deadly.

Trains have no steering wheels.”

she added, “The power of a locomotive is the rate at which it does work.”

 i researched Reddit for a

what i found was a

hundred videos of children playing

sandbox surgery, packing tight the shivering bodies,

injecting each with individuality, and dissecting, only for them to cave in

back through each other, re-undifferentiating

 

i beseeched Bing to break it down

the voiceless voice replied

“Fabric that is old can easily come apart at the seams.

Quilts that are falling to pieces can be stabilized as long as no stitch shifting occurs.

If washing machine tensions are off, that will cause a problem.”

i learned “unsewn” is a word; it feels unfortunately useful

 

i grilled Google

and the results included everything, ever.

galaxies of people “love” — communication constellations, worldview complications re:

what matters / what’s real / what’s right / what’s natural / what’s fate / what’s supposed to hurt / what’s a choice / what’s a feeling / what’s a promise / what’s permanent / what’s possible / what’s projection / what’s possession / what’s obsession / what’s a scar, or static, or a reflection…

millions of stories about Family and songs about Sex, can’t get impressed

 

i queried Quora

One Response:

a single picture of me holding up my smartphone, and

on that screen was a picture of me holding up my smartphone, and

on that screen was a picture of me holding up my smartphone, and so on

until i was a tiny pixel on the path to infinity