Ode to Black Squares

In the year 2023 &#xA; I visited my now-wife in New Zealand. Before this, I had not spent nearly so much time existing in social settings since high school, if even. I felt hugely uplifted when given the opportunity to spend time with others, yet embittered for how I was treated, being the peculiar thing that I am. Several months after my return, September 5th, 2023, I wrote a small collection of…