In the genetic stuff that built these (link-reveal: "bones,")[(colour: green + grey)[ //years after they fall from your body, they’ll scar that same regulation beige//]] he remembers those
(link-reveal: "secrets.")[(colour: green + grey)[// The same ones that hollowed him, his//]] Breathing catching in the cooling southwestern desert, cargo (click-replace: "cargo")[(colour: green + grey)[//did they know it was poison//]] in the back, tarp covered, night reflecting nothing. Drums rumble as the convoy comes to a halt. They dump their green leftovers. 50 gallons painted beige. Sin ugly, practical, shows the least wear through typhoon sandings.
The same paint of home.
Home is the brutalist concrete multiplex harder then any of its surroundings like a swallowed stone. Break the rubber lip, fingers warm against corrugated steel, heat comes in a hot exhale carrying the effervescent decay of the subtropics, tarmac, manure from the rice farm beyond the barbwire fencing. A few kilometers and a hop-step not quite behind a century, Bockscar lands in Yomitan.
If you drive through New Mexico, hovering between chiral small-town nowheres,(click-replace: "hovering between chiral small-bordertown nowheres,")[(colour: green + grey)[//Needles//]] in that vast expanse where one learns why people contemplate their own existence, you will come across a lonely traffic signal where there once might have been a crossroads. (click-replace: "where there once might have been a crossroads.")[(colour: green + grey)[//gone now.//]] One of the two will be (link-reveal: "on.")[(colour: yellow + grey)[ //Middle man died years ago.//]] It will be red every single time. Do not move. (click-replace: "Do not move.")[(colour: red + grey)[Do not move.]]
Before your eyes close, try to remember why you sat till the engine grew cold. Who’s rules you followed, broken as they were. Try to remember what color permission is, you think the older Okinawans called it a ‘blue light’.
(colour: #F5F5DC)[beige hex]
Ask aub about turning the page entirely green then making it refresh
Turn italics blue grey
Make it all links