I am sleeping a lot now.
I am sleeping in the middle of the afternoon.
I never used to do that.
I was awake thinking something would happen
and nothing ever did. I was young and curious.
I am less curious now. far less curious.
I don’t want to know about planets.
I don’t want to know about reincarnation.
I don’t want to know about
the genetic drift of invertebrates.
I don’t want to know about protons
smashing into protons
and the world swallowed up in a black hole.
I don’t want to know about plutonium implosion.
I don’t want to know about molecular gastronomy.
I don’t want to know about sequential move puzzles.
I don’t want to know about petrol direct-injection.
I don’t want to know about machines
that turn off for no reason at all
to the amazement of geniuses at MIT.
there are things I do not understand
and will never understand
and I am thankful.
there is too much to understand
and then immediately forget.
I am a useless machine that forgets everything.
I sleep a lot now in the middle of the afternoon.
I wake up and I cannot remember the name
of my first wife or the dog I had as a child.
I wake up and every time I do
there is something I cannot remember.
I will be completely empty soon.
I will be in a home and a robot will feed me
and the robot will look exactly like Bella Hadid
and I will not know who Bella Hadid is.
I will chew slowly and the most beautiful
robot in the world will wipe my chin
and sing Sleep, My Little Prince, Sleep
in German and I will sleep again
and one day I will not wake up.
WOW. ♥️