“You’re kinda embarassing us all, yo”, I continue speaking to Bilta, “one day, you are going to realize that your life of chance has fallen into place perfectly as if it was all setup in a preordained manner like an expert craftsman putting the paint-by-number pieces together as planned in a factory far away called Fate, yo.”
“I want another coffee, yo”, he replies as he sets his styrofoam cup on the table at the café by the beach, “I’ve been drinking the tears of enemies so much that I’ve forgotten the taste of bitterness, yo. I’m bathed so much in the misery of those that I don’t know that I forgot that growth is push against the current, yo. Stagnation is merely cruise control as you roll down hill the mountain and view gets less and less appealing. The only different between the top and bottom is the view, yo. You can see for miles from the high ground but once you return to sea-level you see nothing but what’s in front of you, yo. At the top, you see nearly everything but when you return to Earth, all that’s there is you, yo.”
“It’s hideous, yo”, I reply as I turn my head to look out the window, “it’s impossible to see yourself when there’s no reflection at the apex of the mountain and, maybe, that’s not a bad thing, yo. If you forget what you think that you are then what will you discover about who you can be, yo.”
“To be or not to be, yo”, he replies as he signals for the digital.waiter.robot to our table, “life is a menu in braille and we all are feeling our way around to what we want, yo. Life is merely a way to invent yourself beyond the set course placed upon you by your name, family name and circumstances, yo. You have many lives to live ahead but only life from where you came from, yo. You have many options forward but only one past, yo. Consider that you came from one place and walked alone as far as you could go, but at some point, you reached a place that you couldn’t pass so how did you get through it, yo.”
“Many a men has fallen victim to the allure of eyesight, yo”, Bilta speaks as he turns his head back to me, “for this, we shall hike in the dark, yo.”
“Where is the dark, yo”, I ask as I turn my head to digital.waiter.robot at our table, “I want you to make a decision on what we should have next at our table to share, yo. Tell me what you would give us, yo. Me and this velociraptor have decided that we’re going to go on a suicide mission somewhere and at sometime but we’re not going to tell you and it’s going to be in the dark, yo.”
“Yellow Eggs Ham Sandwich Bendict, yo”, the robot verbalizes to us, “that’s what I’m going to get for you, your table, and one all around for everyone, yo.”
“Yeah, yo”, I reply as I look up at the small camera.digital.video in the corner of the café recording our every movements and sending the data to some far off place where men watch and critque and say several four-letter words starting with N and ending with END and the word NEND is never mentioned but the changes that we see in the day transpiring at night are hardly oblivious to our naïve imagination of what happens in places that are never seen full of mirrors and pushed on us in places where we are seen and why the letter Y and N and Ware never mentioned in polite company but yet they continue speaking them as if the words didn’t have value or, perhaps, they have forgotten or don’t know the story as it really happened, yo.”