23:34 - January 09, 2003
grey
They sweep down the street to the background music: Philip Glass. Somehow. It is impossible to sweep to this music. The only thing you can do to it is twitch, or sit, head cocked to one side, and think in layers. They layer putting one foot in front of the other over the street over the ground and under their sticky smiles. The street is grey to match the music. The world is grey to match the street.

I've noticed us all being grey so we don't feel too outcast from the rest of the world being like that. If the conservatives tout 'weapons of mass destruction' (#1 overused word of 2002) as the reason for the world going to hell in a handbasket, the liberals have to choose something else... but never would we consider just accepting that maybe the world ISN'T going to hell in a handbasket. Never would we consider admitting that the colours are brighter than we remember them ever being before. It is not in vogue to be happy.

I understand this too well.

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