A Three-Line Refutation (Of Earbud Zombies)

Turn up the volume

Until you can't hear

Your own whimpering.

The One True Platitude

The world hates you.

                                        It wants you to suffer,

And it wants you to die.

                                        It will get what it wants.



                                                                            ...But wants need not be gifted.

Timburr

                                A tree fell in the forest

                                no one heard it

                                  But a passing snake felt it

                            and a hiss of annoyance might have been heard

                                 as the serpent was forced to alter course

                               around another new obstruction.