No One Is Talking About This

Not for me. Too exactly for me...? Idk.

Maybe because I am/have been so terminally online; most of it literally just felt like scrolling through Twitter (X / the portal / Facebook). Or maybe scrolling through my own posts and likes from 2016. Hard to understand who the intended audience is. Me? I know at least 90% of those references. I remember experiencing them in real time; they are mostly just bleak to me now. The non-terminally online? Would they even understand any of it?? Maybe it is just because I am actively trying to wean myself from the phrenetic, disjointed stream of information that it just was exactly not what I needed.

However, the style worked much better in the last third when it gets more personal and poetic. As gently as I can, this was also not for me – for a host of completely different reasons. Not the least of which is that it all hits different after June 2022 than it probably did in 2021. But I suspect that, for many, it is a pretty exquisite expression of a very particular experience of love and grief. Here, the quick vignettes may be the only way to hold the multitudes.

And perhaps that is only born out the the experience of living in the Portal.