Earthling Question?!

There is no why.

It would be lovely to sleep.

And, outside, a year

would go by. 

 
Source: Slaughterhouse-Five or The Children’s Crusade: A Duty-dance with Death by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. 

Method: An erasure culled out from Chapter 4, page 63. 



Note: 

First published in the Spring 2017 issue of After the Pause.