i heard the statistic the exact number of humans still alive but i can ’ t quite remember the exact count but i can remember the exact way you said it seven billion forty-six million in that way you speak cold clinical scientific specific narcissistic condescending hopeless in the whole of the universe massive vast ever-expanding how can we ever have the
audacity the word you used hateful betrayed to think we matter ?
Matter
Tracy Wang yes i agreed for a moment in the vastness of existence a plank-length to us is what we are to the universe minute tiny nothing
but
we see everything in the matter of context in the matter of perspective what may seem like a duck to one is a rabbit to another and a missing drop of paint is nothing in the whole of the portrait
but
in the context of my dance team i lead so others can dance
in the context of my friends i joke so others can laugh
in the context of my family i live so others can live
in the context of my cat who hates all others of her species