The color black is always evolving. It’s what happens when you drive and text. Just then hundreds, perhaps thousands, of shore birds spiral up into a spotless sky, like bombs going off almost everywhere in the world. There are reports that Chinese hackers might be responsible. How quiet it next gets, as if the most popular ringtones for cell phones have been summarily retired. Somewhere a very old man must be dozing in a chair, his stubbly chin dropping onto his chest, while the police use spy drones to capture the opalescence of his convoluted dreams.

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