Sonder! I really like these first two pieces. Your formatting is so neat and polished and the word choice is somehow just the right blend of academic/scientific and poetic.
This phrasing was beautiful: "you gesture vaguely to the turbid galaxies roiling above overwhelmed" I love how nonchalant that is and yet the turn to "overwhelmed" at the end.
you should know i am a time traveler & there is no season as achingly temporary as now
Uh, Lisa, the whole reason we have elected officials is so we don't have to think all the time. Just like that rainforest scare a few years back: our officials saw there was a problem and they fixed it, didn't they? — Homer Simpson