All that matters

All that matters happens in the background. But we don’t get that. We’re matter mad. Image freaks. Movie goers. Background is experienced in the space between objects. Between words and thoughts and prayers.  

On my knees

Every cultural bromide eventually succumbs to its own fatuity. Now on deathwatch: ‘thoughts and prayers’. If intercessory prayer had any efficacy at all, would there not by now be some evidence for it?