Brick Shithouse
I am 13 years old.
I am on a road trip to see family.
We are somewhere in Missouri.
I have a cd from Placebo, 1998 Album, shitty headphones, a few other cds.
I am going somewhere you will never find me.
It was an age before parents treated their children as non-humans who needed policing about the information they consumed.
A pattern that repeats over centuries -- moral outrage that mere mortals expressed their humanity through the arts, music, and literature.
1998. The internet was the thing I crawled to even though the house had carbon monoxide poison.
I thought that Gauntlet II was the best game I would ever play.
I knew nothing then.
The best game I ever played was life.
And when I got to the end, it didn't end.
Write me a poem if you're so into it.