about the author
Eric Burke works as a computer programmer in Columbus, Ohio. Recent work can be found in elimae, > kill author, decomP, qarrtsiluni, A cappella Zoo, and Weave Magazine. You can read his blog at anomalocrinus.blogspot.com.
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My YouTube Gaze
Eric Burke
Sometimes it rains. Sometimes it rains for days. Driftwood builds up in front of your camp—not too high. You stay inside, in your makeshift, open-faced tent, where you are still half visible (yes, you know that you are visible) to the gaze of camera-bearing half strangers like me. There you glisten, hoping (half hoping, you imagine), that my seeing you will bring you back, back to your true fortune at last.