It's scary how I can preschedule
my life:
calendar appointments, messages,
even birthday greetings.
I could live my life
out of the box and by proxy:
A bot with my name
and specifications
might be doing my status
updates
and answering
my mail.
Is this another kind of
freedom
or is there really a replacement
of myself that would work
fine
in my
stead?
And one day,
will my son
disappear in this
replacement
world?
This conjures a different
kind of hope
in my head:
"If you run away from me..."
I will always find you.
That's a mother's promise
to her little bunny.
(Nov. 16, 2009)
Quote from "The Runaway Bunny" by Margaret Wise Brown
Image from Margaret Wise Brown's "The Runaway Bunny." This illustration is on the page where it says "If you fly away from me, I will be the tree that you come home to."
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