Photo: Tiffany Bessire

Rebooting

by Alora Young

Inspired by Hiroaki Umeda’s Split Flow and Holistic Strata

Response to Hiroaki Umeda

If you re-boot the Galaxy

What becomes of the stars?

Shatter parallel realities like straw man fallacies make a safe haven in a brand new Nova

If only

You could surf asteroids that easy

If I could trip on stars to tomorrow then I'd be there believe me

Because if there's one thing I'm good at it's running away from yesterday.

New-age Icarus old school god complex

Hidden in the zeros of the multiverse matrix

Punch the code in for Andromeda

Count the pixels in the movement of the heavenly bodies

Wonder what deity programed the dance

Wonder if the man will leave it up to chance

If we launch a conquest of the sky

If we go to kill another world and let this planet die

If you re-boot the Galaxy what becomes of us?

Is it better for the world to lack gods image?

If you re-boot the Galaxy I know what becomes of god

life will be left

About

Alora Young

Alora Young: Alora is a junior at Hillsboro High School, and has been writing all her life. She is the chief editor of her school’s literary magazine, an actress, a dancer, and a musician. She is an active reader and supporter of local theatre.

OZ Arts Nashville presents Art Wire: an ongoing collaboration between OZ Arts and The Porch in which 10 writers attend the OZ Arts performance season and respond to the presentations through original writing that is personal, playful, and deeply engaged. The OZ Arts 2019-2020 season offers each Art Wire Fellow a diverse array of inspiration, including innovative Japanese dance artist Hiroaki Umeda; a genre-bending presentation of Frankenstein by Chicago-based company Manual Cinema; and two emotionally raw works with Nashville's own professional dance company, New Dialect, just to name a few.