or rather this inspired me
not the picture of the woman lying in the sun
the girl
alone
and her phantasie
maybe beautiful
but
maybe also frightening
alone in the quantum social
subway train
and
all at once
i saw the quarantine protesters
zombies pressing against the train windows
and the many ways of quarantine
alone together vs together alone
and the train became a virtual world metaphor
hurling through the unreal time and space
hurling through the real that seemed unreal
and the real that couldn't quite be grasped
and the totally imagined landscape
that filled the world
just beyond the screen-- in one form or another
how
completely
the girl in the picture is me
and
how that was different during the pandemic
but
completely that experience-- transformed
somehow
