Imagine
your brain has been transplanted into the body of a genetically
engineered bird. Imagine that your family (Sean, Merope, little lame
Emilie) have been archived digitally. Imagine further that you have
been told, if you complete this mission, they will be allowed to join
you. Let's be honest. You know where this is going, you watched
“Dune” and 1000 other vids with the same plot device. So when you
fly over the cluster of thatched huts nestled under the trees, you
don't drop that which you carry. Your family is lost to you, always
was (surely), but you will not destroy the rebel village. You are
free, free to develop your own new life. Free to soar on the wind, a
solitary aerial monarch. One who has escaped the tyrants.
One
who has no idea of how to survive, alone and avian. Maybe the
villagers will accept you, feed you, shelter you. You spiral down
towards the trees that shelter your possible new home.
Imagine
you are a genetically engineered bird who, for a time, dreamed she
was something else.
Publ.
Aug. 18, 2010, www.dailycabal.com
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