Sanskrit

We walked across the street in a group 

I doubled back as a straggler.

I was scared of the traffic and highly caffeinated;

I took the bridge that runs over the street instead.  

Many people this week have told me

That I make no sense

It is a blow to the ego

If they spoke Sanskrit things would be better, I think.

The Final Coincidence of That Chapter

Are you the one who likes to go to the airport?

Um.  No.  That's not me.  

(It's the other Meg, the lame one.)

G.P.S. tells the tale, as a narrative winds up in my mind like

a sling shot while rubber bands tie up my shoulder as a tell-tale sign.

Something's not right here.

  

Four months later another photographer friend is excited to be

dating.  He forwards me the email and the picture, her favorite thing to do

is hang out at the airport.

She likes sushi.

I see how the mix up happened.

Cough.

Cynic Sarcasmos of the Cosmos, I am.

We would have met if I sold you my fountain pen under different circumstances.

The wrong girl got ice cream that night.

That's for sure.  

I hate remembering but it happens anyway.

At least I learned about flux and how to fill the bladder full of ink.

I picture an octopus getting scared under water.

I would rather be a jelly fish.

I'd float above the modem and flirt with the blinking light on the cell phone.

I would get tangled in the lights coming from the machines.  

Exit stage as curtain made of tentacles from the men-o-war fall gracefully.

End scene.  

I am so finite, I continuously end.

To begin, I have not dreamt in quite a while.  

Wearing knee highs and chain smoking, my best friend is a computer.

There are other, better friends inside the computer.

The computer holds them and provides my only access. 

Small box of thoughts leading to a black hole or a sliding board.

Technology theorist communique.   

At night, I go out in the yard and rescue the roses from the cold air.

It hurts my skin.

I cannot imagine what it does to a rose.

I hung them like a crown of thorns over the dining room chandelier.