Tag: vegetation

This time next year we shall be living like kings.
Some things just happen.
Doesn’t look like much work. Staring out of the window.
The place has grown sad.
It does not feel very splendid.
I went back because the forest is fantastic.
This is the landscape from a future that has already been and gone.
Galaxies joggle and reel above their heads.
The stars. Up there. There are too many stars.
Looking at the stars, she feels impossibly small.
We talked for a long time.
We walk the hills above the village all afternoon.
Lots of things have changed.
Some people have an odd sense of humour.
We measure the passage of time by the amount of change we see around us.
I expect you’ve travelled a long way.
He doesn’t know what to say, really.
Something nobody had never seen before.
They’re talking very quietly.
He doesn’t see another living person all day.
Everyone believed my story.
I was quite alone.
We’re scavengers, of course, wandering here and there looking for some useful thing.
And that was how I was going to stay.
It was deserted.
Gone Fishin’
How can this be trouble?
I told you, I don’t want any trouble.
I don’t want any trouble.
If we’re going out, we’re going out in style.
Much easier to forget.
People don’t want to remember, in general.
The sound is turned down, but the screen is showing a reality show.
I’m glad you’re here.
We just don’t know what we’re doing it for any more.
We’ve known each other too long.
I have no idea why anyone would want to build a town here.
I don’t need a miracle.
Why are you so angry all the time?
They kept themselves to themselves, in little ghettoes.
These are the days we live in, though.
They speak a language all their own, intelligible only to others of their species.
A fair fight. Fine.
The World laughed and sang around him, invisible and glorious.
Every step crisp and precise.
They’re probably all completely insane by now.
Everything is just where it should be, suddenly in focus.
Then everything slows down.
Like someone dancing for a rain that will not fall.
Are you still dancing?