avoidance avoidance avoidance avoidance avoidance avoidance avoidance avoidance avoidance avoidance avoidance avoidance avoidance avoidance avoidance avoidance avoidance avoidance avoidance avoidance avoidance avoidance avoidance avoidance avoidance avoidance avoidance avoidance avoidance a void dance of extinguished stars infinitesimal memories of a dream about a dream dreamt by no thing, space without extension, massless object, atemporal event unfolding to a point, a silence total and visceral; keep speaking; carapace of chitinous language against the encroachment of a void; boundary defining the contours of an absence not felt, acutely, urgently; keep speaking, keep speaking because this is all there is, all that will be, no matter precipitating circumstance moral desert acts valorized deeds vilified hopes dashed; fear staring at a pit, out of a pit, up at a pinprick where there was the world now ended, promises broken laws defied contingent truths rendered false necessary truths rendered vacuous the lights all gone out gone out gone out to the bedrock of being words spoken zero vector final hour glass sand grain stuck in spasming esophagus except no throats no beings no selves all that is left is avoidance avoidance avoidance avoidance avoidance avoidance avoidance avoidance avoidance avoidance avoidance avoidance avoidance avoidance avoidance avoidance avoidance avoidance avoidance avoidance avoidance avoidance avoidance avoidance avoidance avoidance avoidance avoidance avoidance avoidance avoidance avoidance