Are You Real

https://medium.com/@christylrivers/are-you-for-real-b892f0d16d87 Everything that is real to human beings Is not so real anymore We invented money and gods and robots and twitter-feeds We sit behind a blue glow Wondering where we are. Or are we, at all? Were we? We were. There. East Africa?—?maps are real?—? Because we dragged lines in dust, Then made them from trees, Then electrons We collected mind pixels, (a made-up word, like thoughts) We abstracted those bits, Into symbols, into shapes, into policy Then we asked Where did the sky go? Once… Gods and goddesses, centaurs and dragons Swirled above, spiraled into heads and hearts. Around our campfires Bears grumbled, lions haunted, elephants huffed Until we borrowed some sparks, blew them into the dark Then. We emerged with those sparks tell each other stories Like the one you are reading now. https://medium.com/@christylrivers/are-you-for-real-b892f0d16d87