Physicists: We’re all earthlings.
Chemists: We’re all atoms.
Teachers: It’s not so simple.
Psychonauts: We’ve entered a new stone age.
Comedians: We’ve entered a new stoned age.
Canadians: We sold fifteen billion dollars of arms.
Saudi Arabian: Our businessmen have private jets.
Lovers: What if we tape it?
Grandmothers: I will water you with whatever I have.
Artists: Look at this mess.
Collectivists: What’s your problem?
Futurists: This is going to work.
My Dad: Listen to this list I finished.
Dogs: Ruff.
Children’s books: And they lived happily ever after.
One Sentence, Thirty-Two Lives
By Liam Siemens & Gabrielle Fourstar
Anti-Globalist: I love these Cheetos.
Artist: This vodka tastes lemony.
Secretary of State: Am I being recorded?
Buddhist: We’re all one unity.
Indigenous Activist: You stole our land.
Family: Can’t we all sit at the table?
Doctors: This is a pandemic.
Chinese Official: We’ll live in a one-party universe.
Americans: Bomb, bomb, bomb, for them.
Nature Lovers: We’re nature too.
Nationalists: Let’s bring back conscription.
Porn Stars: Mind your own business.
Halliburton: Let’s subcontract to…
Congress: We’re already rich.
Philosophers: What are these categories?
Assholes: Yeah well fuck you.
Internet Users: Yeah well fuck you too.
Gabrielle Fourstar is studying sustainability, fine arts and gender studies at the University of Saskatchewan. This fall she will be protesting the Trans Mountain Expansion pipeline in British Columbia with the Tiny House Warriors.
Liam Siemens: I’ve published in places like The Literary Review of Canada, Capilano Review, and VICE. Sometimes I write about utopia, and for an on-going project, I will send a little personalised perfect world poem/mini-essay/story to your inbox/mailing address if you email me at siemenslh@gmail.com (drop a note about something you’ve been thinking about or struggling with, if you’d like). My new instagram is after_the_internet.