The following two pieces were originally published on the blogsite, thingsfromsomewhere; republished with permission.
September
If I were God, I would first make every month September. I would deal with the rest later.
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A Sleep Pandemic
Lately, I’ve been sleeping a lot, and it makes me feel stressed. Then I realized that what really worries me is not sleeping too much, but the fact that I have to wake up.
When I realized this, I thought how wonderful it would be if there were a sleep pandemic. A virus that spread quickly through the air. Once again, the workers who had to keep working would be the first to catch it. They would sleep for days, until they had finally had enough sleep. In their dreams, they would taste the happinesses that the rich could never buy with money.
The madness of endless production and consumption stops. Everywhere is quiet. Everyone is asleep. There is nothing but the sound of the wind, the rustling leaves, and the birds. The world finally has a little time to breathe.
Dreams cover the whole world. Good people have beautiful dreams, bad people have nightmares. At least in our dreams, there is justice.
Centre of the Web 