The Parallel of Water & Air
by Jesi Bender

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Ere 

No man’s life is his own.  He exists for others, in others.  “No man is an island.”

Perhaps he is more the ocean.  He touches every edge as an unwalkable bridge.  He evaporates, an ether absorbed and expelled.  And, of course, he rocks, restless, against, against, against.