he was packed in row 33 seat E like a winged tin of fish sardine  mackerel

                                                                                playing a numbersgame

seats

         he came up with onefiftysix

them filled  occupied  by occupied contestants voyeurs cosplayers  digitally-tickled balls cocks clits brother Bob interrupts  hes not really there  just in his head  I told you, wouldya quit, quit, keep a civil tongue in your head. Quit saying tickled.

his row accounted for six seats

                                       six silos

sick

      no one conversed with the passenger beside them  earbuds headphones aplenty  three he saw wore iPhones strapped into goggles  VRers  virtual reality  ARers  augmented reality

    reality appears insufficient

wherever

whatever

whoever they may be

                        he couldnt say

hed have to question someone who preferred to be someone other than who or what they were

    but he understood

                          his spirit animal  the buffalo  he inhabited some of its characteristics but not that he wanted to shapeshift into one

convincing cosplayers personalities hed run into

                                                         the old sameold story

if one believes something is true

a lie repeated enough morphs into truth

if one believes they are they are

the mind can be a powerful hallucinogen

if it can muster a lucid dream

                               finesses  it has the ability to alter to augment to turn narratives direct its own storyline  liberate itself from a theme that was loaded in some fashion like a serial episode outside of any serial context  a prequel sequel aired  disjointed  untouched by a lucid operation 

a common straight narrative which days months years later is seed is fertile soil for a different arrangement

Where did that come from?

                                        No fuckin’ idea.

a transformation so complete that their physics refuses to allowaccept the physics that paralleled them  invaded inhibited it  host/parasite  mold mushroom dispersing spores

                                                   there remains the slightestsliver of continuity

                                                  exceptionalseldom used words beginning with X

                                                                      followed by Z

                                                                                      followed by Y

it doesnt matter from where they come

                                                    theyve come

 

he might suppose his numbersgame wasnt drasticallydifferent than what his fellow passengers played

Wednesday,  15  4. 26

1108,  Thursday,  30  4. 26

Chicago Transit Authority  Beginnings  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI-BMDnti4c