Silent Essence

Silence is my favorite crypt, and when I'm feeling pious, or magnanimous, or greedy or alive, I go there. I go there because in silence, I can run so far away from the creeps and the whores, the moneygrubbing clerks and the bilge of puddles splashing my pantlegs. And if those shadows catch up to me, I can always close my eyes and pray for them to go away. I'll pray forever, crouched and blind, but never break my silence, because that's my wormhole out of this luddite galaxy, my trapdoor in the floor of this devolved society.