the animal looks at me. who is he. is he the animal he was made to be. these aren't questions per se exactly. the apparent see. there was a book i saw, all pictures of animals looking at the man with the camera. i see some people look down and away or blank as if they are not looking at anything. often times i see people looking down at their personal device and typing with their thumbs, walking with a kind of extrasensory expression, a vague smile, and when they bump into you they don't notice or say a thing. they're not looking at the animal or me. i see them in my mind as tripping, dazed on technology. i'm looking at the animal who looks at me.