Atypical Apples

Alex Palhegyi

The asphalt radiates heat stolen from the sun to create an optical illusion similar to what is described when nomads tell of desert mirages conceived by the hallucinogenic effects of physical exhaustion combined with the delirium of isolation that somehow lend the mind to create images to fill in the gaps the eyes fail to report due to dehydration that causes the body to trigger an impulse that reminds us to consider the fact that we are indeed thirsty and need to consume water or else we may die in the middle a desert full of sand and highly evolved organisms who mutter languages unfathomable to human beings who themselves evolved from lower bipedal primates whom of course share at least one evolutionary ancestor with the primitive life forms that now outnumber the lonely nomad that is the subject of this example that was originally conceived to further elaborate upon the analogy introduced at the beginning of this sentence that exploits grammatical law to create a literary effect that intends to suggest a general sense of futility and frustration concerning the larger scenario of man and his place in this universe of stars and planets and computers and technology like cell phones and television and battery-powered remote controls that allow us to navigate the dense and intimidating spectrum of the greater Information Superhighway so that we can at least momentarily and periodically catch a glimpse of how our dreams may some day manifest themselves on an eighty-nine-million inch high-definition plasmaflatscreenwondermachine that announces the resurrection of the messiah himself who has come for the sole intention of claiming those souls who by chance decided to choose the correct gospel from a plethora of fraudulent documents concerning the question of the possibility of an afterlife after this life on the third planet from our solar central location relative to our solar system which is only a small fraction of the larger Milky Way galaxy that makes up for approximately 1/95775400000000000000000000000000000000 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 0000000000000000000000000000000000000th of our maniacal universe that seems so small when compared to the capacity of the human brain to create absurd abstract analytical anomalies about animalistic alternatives to atypical apples in a barrel.