In the desert northeast of cairo my partner spent 18 months digging up red sand, dry sand. i laughed at his foolishesness. all the discoveries to be discovered had been unearth. they had been found by giants of history, by visonaries, by those before the fall.

two months ago he found a stone that he said linked the past to now. i dismissed it.

he left me, he left us, all of us, he left the earth, he left the living weeks ago. he left us here. with nothing new, nothing solved.

i built a castle