To @wakeupkitty.pal

I have written I am a fleeting dot in this night. Any night adorned with tiny fireflies, offering their lanterns in a solemn rite.

I walk along a dirty street, where traces of cobblestones from another era are visible, the smell of the sewers is nauseating. There is no rain nor small rodents as there should be, but it is a world inhabited at odd hours by specters that slowly pass from the human to the unspeakable. I write because I know nothing less bothersome to do, apart from this apprenticeship of mixing colors, among drowsy lights. Strokes and ants. Straight lines, not so perfect, nor so erotic.

You should be Polyphemus, near Erebus begging the ferryman to take me to the other shore. As if the other shore mattered. I write because someone remains for me at the other end of the world. There are no more airships, no hot air balloons to send messages. The bugs sniff happily among the fabrics; we can eradicate pests, but the ideal would be to find oil, gold, coltan, or roots—the order doesn't matter. Just premonitions that stubbornly take refuge in memory. While we feel life spilling quietly over the days.
Some days I want to bring you the news, clean news, like water that springs from the earth among fountains and water lilies, but I wake up to unbearable heat and a longing for snow, while in your world snow is hateful and barren, and it's the second time the odious neighbor has passed by, with her mangy dog ​​that bares its teeth and is as terrible and depressing as its owner. We have gnomes in the garden, or they've been stolen. The cat remains peacefully in the chimney; there are a few jars of jam left from the time of Covid, or only the white of the freshly painted surface persists. Houses only remain active if you perceive some kind of foul, disproportionate smoke. My sky is gray, nasty, I hate it, but I can imagine it translucent and blue, draw a little, step outside the borders of the bedbug conflict and leave you a bottle upstream, out to sea.

@blessedlife, @emmabritt, @solperez

Image created by me from a specific prompt in chatGPT.