Give Me Something

Photo by Raphael Schaller on Unsplash

Lads, I’m begging you. Give me something real. I’m starving.

Don’t give me how. Give me why. Why should I bother in the first place? What’s waiting for me on the other side? I’m serious. I want to know. Describe it to me. Make a boat I can sail in. Fold this muck into origami. Make it into a swan. Watch it flap over the water.

The algorithms coax me along and now someone is telling me that “your energy is…