Twenty-Seven Truths, Part I

1. You have the illness you have always been fearful of. The cause is your fear. You will never sleep, and tea and yoga are only placebos. Welcome to hell. 2. You cannot evade exactly anything you ever experience. 3. I. Zombies are only an abstract concept. II. So is your entire life. 4. You impulsively set your clothing on fire with the post-justification that it is an archaic craving and without fire, we'd all be dead. 5. We don't live on different planets in a communicative solar system because some of us don't handle diversity very well, and a human-sized crater is large enough. 6. The universe does end, and outside of the edges, there is only pure whiteness that goes on forever. I know, I've been there. 7. I. There are villages inside the carpet. II. There are worlds inside the molecules that make up the villages in the carpet. III. There are kingdoms inside of electrons and protons. They want each other's land. 8. You have a hard time choosing between the four of spades and the seven of hearts. But no matter what you choose, they're both just cards. 9. Any moment that is filled with emotion will feel like it will be the like that for the rest of your life. It will not be. 10. You deride them but you have no idea you're in the same thrall. 11. I. You remember engraved metal spoons hanging on a kitchen wall. Yes, you do. II. You remember the song that played during the car ride on the highway when you passed the aircraft warning light in the distance. III. You remember the green atmosphere when you were a kid in a swimsuit licking ice cream outside of your neighbor's house. IV. You remember there being a small blue swimming pool. V. You remember looking through the lace curtains of your living room window and seeing snow and holiday lights on the suburban houses across the street. VI. None of this ever happened. 12. The main reason you can't fall asleep is because you were told to. 13. You have dark circles under your eyes that only some can see.