ABSTRACT
Gone exists prior to psychosis and denotes a loss of life at its core. A tree is harmless until it rains, a bus a dog-fight pit, car an intergalactic missile, body a machine, shit a shocking punishment, food a conspiracy, sky sheet metal and so on. Predicated on the actuality of nothing, indifference views as axiomatic the destruction of everything that is not itself. The effect of indifference might seem akin to neglect, but neglect fails in its lethargic unconcern to convey the resolve needed to achieve indifference. Indifference renders the author the last remaining life form of a desecrated land. The Gone child, unable to know anything, cannot learn or change. From the basic facts of life birth, development and death to the stuff of life between is a closed book to the Gone child who adopts the least harrowing stance indifference. Parents, schoolteachers, public servants, clerics, young people can display indifference if truth proves to be indigestible.
