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Channel / Source:
Caitlin Johnstone
Published: 2022-06-20
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xyqzi1sj9Eg
just for fun just for fun we all pretend to be strangers just for fun we pretend we don't know each other on the street on the train at the store at the traffic light just for fun we pretend we aren't locked in ecstatic union and briefly ignore our intimate knowledge of the primordial secrets behind each other's eyes we sit on the bus and try not to
be the first to wink or to burst out laughing at the silliness of our game or to call out the goofy elephant in the room about how we're all pretending to be strangers just for fun two spouses pause mid-coitus to shake hands and introduce themselves two twins in the womb make awkward small talk about the weather the thumb and the index finger avoid eye contact on
the elevator two slimy babies squirt into the same universe made from the same stuff and then put on masks made of mind chatter so we can pretend that we don't know each other my atoms are your atoms and your atoms are mine we have danced this swirling energy orgy since before the big bang playing positive and negative playing stimulus and response playing predator and prey playing
