he carefully constructed a faraday cage around his brain to prevent the intrusion of any thoughts not concurrent to his own

soon he dwelled across the world in insular idiocy as the lessons of others were no more than gnats to his peripheral

content with the genius of one whose only understanding of genius is the thoughts within his own skull he smiles

so he carefully constructed a faraday cage around his heart in an effort to decrease the fleeting chemical intrusions

soon he became lost in the dull silence of no external stimuli and felt he had preserved himself into an incantation of purity

no need for the petty criticisms and barbs, nor for the insanity of emotional discourse he floated in a deprivation chamber for one

unaware in the unity of nothing, that by depriving himself the basest of interaction he lost the truth at his core

never understanding that the very act of caging is fundamentally against the sovereign need for freedom

he sat fully invested in the emptiness of one truly alone, numbed, dulled, by the circular rhythm inside