Two weeks to change the world, fourteen days to destroy it.

I could introduce myself properly, but it's not really necessary. You will know me well enough and soon enough, depending on a diverse range of variables. It suffices to say that at some point in time, I will be standing over you, as genially as possible. Your soul will be in my arms. A color will be perched on my shoulder. I will carry you gently away.

I watch the beauty for as long as I can, then turn and face the rest of it.

Humans have a talent for escalation. -Death

Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.

When he moves, a streetlight stabs him, and the words flow out like blood.

So many humans. So many colours. They keep triggering inside me. They harass my memory. I see them tall in their heaps, all mounted on top of each other. There is air like plastic, a horizon like setting glue. There are skies manufactured by people, punctured and leaking, and there are soft, coal-coloured clouds, beating, like black hearts. And then. There is death. Making his way through all of it. On the surface: unflappable, unwavering. Below: unnerved, untied, and undone.