Let’s imagine the ceramic
businessman going to work. Getting up out of his ceramic bed, sand under the
pillow, broken shards of his own feet at the bottom of the bed.
Let’s imagine him brushing his
tiny, brittle, sandpaper teeth. Taking a shower and realising a towel is not as
effective as he would like.
Let’s imagine, as he walks to
work, the cracks in the pavement giant crevasses; puddles like lakes; the
litter in the gutter vast swathes of insurmountable rubbish — an impossible challenge
for our little hero to overcome.
Let us pause, and wonder at how
easily he might avoid the ticket inspectors, and creep silently between the
feet of the giants on the underground.
Careful, ceramic businessman,
not to be trampled! You are fragile: A tiny, insignificant, unseen,
unremembered agent in the world of the organic.
And even if he reaches his
desk, will he have the strength to lift the pen or the coffee cup, or summon
the will not to crumble?
Poor, poor little ceramic
businessman: Go home, go back to bed, back to the sand between your sandy toes.
Sleep, sleep, tiny ceramic
businessman. Sleep.
08/10/12
08/10/12