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hospital, asking someone if they could find out where they moved Joe, he's still in that damn coma.
They take me to the room, and I see a few other people who are also in comas. I pull up a chair next
to Joe and I sit and think.

According to some scale, if you are in a state of confusion, you are in the mildest coma. A coma is
a state of unconsciousness. You are considered unconscious when you don't react to the
environment around you. So imagine a person walking around confused and technically
unconscious. What happens if that person comes face to face with danger and doesn't even realize
it?

Some people will tell you that coma patients can sometimes hear you if you try speaking to them,
but I don't know if it's fact or fiction, but I had a weird dream last night and it had something to do
with Joe. I decided to tell him the dream regardless of if he could hear me or not. I tell him that in
the dream I'm sitting in this small room, at a desk.

On the desk in front of me there is an emergency contact form that I have to fill out. On the wall
that I'm facing, there are two paintings. On the left there is a painting of the Chicago Cubs logo, a
baseball team, and on the right there is a painting of Anna Briol Walkhill, a celebrity. I don't pay as
much attention to the paintings as I do the form, simply because I'm having such a hard time filling
it out. If something happens to me who should know first? Who should know last?

I still often wonder why Joe would put me on his list, but I think I'm starting to understand. I'm
starting to understand that maybe Joe is as alone as I am. Maybe one man can never know another
man, but if we can begin to understand and comprehend these things that this man does because we
also do these things, we can come closer to understand who he is through who we are. He probably
had just as hard of a time filling out the form as I did.

After a while I think about the other people that I know in my life, are they as alone as I am? There
are thousands of people around us but we still manage to drown in loneliness either because we
don't know these people around us or we just don't want to know them at all.

At some point during the night I guess my dream completely shifted focus because I also had a
dream where I was in a helicopter with someone. He was the pilot and I was the co-pilot. I looked
down at this city, this civilization, and I realized just how little I really knew about a world where
there was so much to know. So many people walking, working. So many rocks, roads.

In the human body the heart pumps blood throughout the entire system to get nutrients around to
parts of the body, parts such as the brain and the muscles we use to walk. The way of travel is
through veins and arteries.

While I'm looking down at this place with so many roads, its structure begins to remind me of
human veins. People driving to work along this road, blood cells traveling to the calf along this
vein. They do this all for the sake of the bigger picture, for the efficient operation of a large system.
The similarities of how our body functions and how a city functions are uncanny. Every one has to
work. Every blood cell has to supply. Every one has to do their job to keep the system in motion.