“My wife was tired of our dog sleeping in our bed at night. So i decided to build him his own house.“

“And if not, He is still good”

“I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer.”

But we try. We attend daily services at SoulCycle and spend our Sundays worshiping at the church of Whole Foods. No, we cannot beat back time, but we can smooth our skins and tone our abs and visit hair-restoration specialistic in the city. We can armor ourselves against the future with the pearlescent teeth and manicure nails and buns of steel.       but the woods are dark and they are closing in.      Just because I recognize inanity does not immunize me from it. Far from it. If anything, I am among the worst of my kind, vain and fearful, scrambling to figure out how to keep myself alive