The Visitor
26 May, 2008
Be trained into docility, by yourself or by others. Your brain so accustomed to nothingness, to blankness, to mediocrity and blandness. You will never have the proper shock to bring you into humanity. You do not need to live your life because you have reached the point where all of your living is done. You are, in fact, American. You will not be questioned, not when you do nothing for your paycheck and not when you spend your evenings alone and not when you seem to utterly lack a soul. You Belong. You do not need to do aught for your belonging.
I do not understand what it is, not to Belong. Not really. But I will not idle simply because I can. I will not take my belonging as a given. I cannot take my belonging as a given. Belonging is not enough, and I am not convinced that it will not go away.
