Playground

by Richard Powers

The first time he put a foot on it, he slipped and fell and lacerated himself on the concrete.

sorry lets not pretend anyone would actually say lacerated

Add that to your table of definitions for what it means to be a human being. We make things that we hope will be bigger than us, and then we’re desolate when that’s what they become.

For centuries, the island has always hung flowers around the necks of its destroyers.