As She Wrote

When I was a little girl I would go visit my uncle

Uncle Gene , in his small Detroit apartment

I don’t remember much

But what I do remember is that he loved trolls, but that’s not what this is about

This is about a small toy box

One that looked like a small shipping crate

And when the box was on the box would shake

The “man” inside the box would yell

Let Me Out Of Here! Hey! Help me please, Let Me Out!

You never saw the man , just heard his voice

I never actually believed there was a tiny man trapped inside the box

But I do still think about it til this day and wonder its connection to my interest now

I asks the same questions I had back then

How tragic would it be to be stuck in a box?

What was the reason for its existence?

Where did the thought come from?

Who thought this was amusing?

Why was the man trapped?

None never to be answered

But my love for black mirror and my connection back has me wondering about consciousness.

How there are episodes that talked about transferred consciousness

How one can be transferred into something such as mundane as a box and how scary that reality was.

Did the same brain who thought of the toy box also think in terms of Black Mirror?

And why was I able to feel its pain.

Understand it in a weird way

A early sign of empathy?!

A piece stuck with me.

Sky Kids Inc

I don’t know what to think.