Paul Shapera
Climbing Very Tall Things is Not Only Good Exercise, it Encourages an Existential Look at Your Mortality
[HAN MI:] (spoken)

The little meme decided it would be safer if she was above the street, and so she climbed and climbed, higher and higher up a tall high rise. She could see inside all the lit windows, all the strange lives of the people within. She was still climbing when the sun set and darkness fell

[MEME:]

Hanging high above the world
Hold your breath and don't look down
The fall just waits so ever patient
The quick red kiss upon the ground

[GEEK CHORUS, MEME:]

Little lost meme, do you dare to dream
For the soft warm touch, for the sweet warm things?
Do you wish, do you ache, do you wait one day
For the love from a tale of the far away?

Little lost meme, do you dare to dream Crawling upwards towards the starlight
That a song of love
Will be yours to sing?
All the hearts that soar
Well, they also weep Hoping all is not in vain
In a world that wears away all things

[HAN MI:] (spoken)
In the center of a small apartment was a girl sitting in a large chair. Wires and tubes ran in and out of her arms and the helmet on her head. She sat lifelessly, head limp, staring out into someplace that was not here. She was the most beautiful thing the meme had ever seen, and the meme worked her way into the apartment so she could be near her

[MEME:]

Hanging high above the world
Hold your breath and don't look down
The fall just waits so ever patient
The quick red kiss upon the ground

[GEEK CHORUS, MEME:]

Little lost meme, do you dare to dream
For the soft warm touch, for the sweet warm things?
Do you yearn, do you ache, hope to learn one day
If the strife of life is not in vain?

Little lost meme, do you dare to dream What silent voice of yearning beckons
That a song of love will be yours to sing?
All the hearts that soar, well they also weep Calling out to us again
In a world that wears away all things

[HAN MI:] (spoken)

The little meme sat watching the girl for days. A few times a day, the girl unplugged for a short time, but mostly sat in her trance. Over time, the meme grew bolder and moved closer, finally climbing onto her lap. The girl would sometimes even absentmindedly pet the little meme, unaware of what she was even doing, lost in a distant cyber reality