Sync Hole

Imagine the person standing next to you is thinking about you. If there is no one standing next to you imagine a person standing next to thinking about you. What are they thinking? Imagine yourself thinking about a person thinking thoughts about someone standing next to you thinking thoughts about you. Replace you with them. Now think thoughts about you as them and vice-versa. Do the thoughts match? Imagine there is no one left in the world expect you, yet you remain plagued by thoughts of someone thinking thoughts about you, someone you can’t see or hear, someone who cannot possibly exist, since you have been assured that you are the only person left in the world. What kind of world is this? Imagine an inconceivable world where no one spends any time thinking about you, because everyone is thinking about themselves, which removes you as a source of identification and disquiet from the equation. Why are you still feeling troubled and bewitched? Imagine water flowing. Keep imagining this until you are cured.

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About John Biscello

Originally from Brooklyn, NY, writer, poet, performer, and playwright, John Biscello, has lived in the high-desert grunge-wonderland of Taos, New Mexico since 2001. He is the author of four novels, Broken Land, a Brooklyn Tale, Raking the Dust, Nocturne Variations, and No Man’s Brooklyn; a collection of stories, Freeze Tag, two poetry collections, Arclight and Moonglow on Mercy Street; and a fable, The Jackdaw and the Doll, illustrated by Izumi Yokoyama. He also adapted classic fables, which were paired with the vintage illustrations of artist, Paul Bransom, for the collection: Once Upon a Time, Classic Fables Reimagined. His produced, full-length plays include: LOBSTERS ON ICE, ADAGIO FOR STRAYS, THE BEST MEDICINE, ZEITGEIST, U.S.A., and WEREWOLVES DON’T WALTZ.
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