strange but harmless.

“That is a peculiarity of humans: We feel the same emotions for our ideas as we do for the real world, which is why we can cry while reading a book, or fall in love with movie stars. Our idea of humanity bewitches us, while humanity itself stays safely sealed away into its billions of [...]

in an infinite universe, nothing is impossible; possibility is defined purely by degrees of rising or declining probability. by virtue of this construction, fate is coincidence, and destiny is luck. to define it otherwise requires a system of belief or faith, not fact or reason.
this is not to imply that such [...]

somewhere in these autumn flowers
wilting in the rain;
someone in these ivory towers
falling down again
the rats suspect a mind amidst their ceaseless toil and churn;
the man behind the mask pretends to drown instead of burn.
the alien above the maze illuminates his book
returning in a thousand years to have another look.