What’s the use of a name? What good is it to learn a nick, call it off and fall into a frenzy when a chance encounter forces you to claw back the shadows of faces you have never bothered to forget?
What use are names when there is seldom enough time for more than a passing shot before the light fades and your batteries run out of juice and lame justifications? If only there were fewer paths and far more stops where I could sit and stew in your presence until you regard the intrusion as nothing more than a ripple – a lifeless thing you need not fear and couldn’t care less about.
There are two sides to each meeting of unconnected minds. One is anxious for answers and fears the eternity of every moment lost to memory. The other is happy to capture the mere thought of this privilege and shed all illusions of power that come to play in games of mismatched wills. Why should one fear the nameless and the unknown when answers to questions you can’t even ask dance before your eyes and settle on shiny leaves?
Does it matter that I can make a guess about your family but have no clue to who you are? Can you remember any trace of your grubby past, spent in half measures amid blades that had to be cut and chewed to fuel your present flight? The day retreats and you advance in boldness, rearing on long, spiny shanks to prop up wings that glow in the dim of a shrill twilight.
Under a cloak of universal invisibility, lovers on small scales sweep past to shock with silent caresses that brush past stiff and salty faces. For some, the scent of virgin lures conquers all senses save the drive to secure half a chromosome of immortality. Many are left wanting, ending the night as empty husks on dew-stained webs or worn bodies that failed to win the heart of cold maids. Still, enough survive to extinguish their passion and squeeze each other dry in a meeting of behinds that will spawn a fresh slaughter of young shoots and the prolonged massacre of trees to fuel a need to know and name every mystery that takes to the air on the thinnest of strings.
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