jonathan_lethem – blackandwhiteandcolours

I am getting older, you know.

Nothing made enough sense to matter.

Shall we get started?

It’s the same to me as any other place.

He’d slept dreamlessly but woke into melancholy.

You find me here because nothing keeps me elsewhere.

So what’s the appeal?

One didn’t merely wander in.

And that was what you saw. Not this.

That’s how you know you’re still alive

Don’t tell me what to do

The whole journey might have been a dream

Some false vision of calm

That was nothing, brace yourself

There was plenty to fear

Here’s a song about a gray goose, the strangest goose

It will be there when you need it

How long are you going to leave him in there?

This day was gray, with heavy portents of rain

He would remain undetected if he wished to be