The Mid Air Collision of 1938

There had been a longing for the ascension of bubbles---

and sex

and things that were out of my control

for wanting to be grabbed

instead of grabbing

getting sick from the coaster on a Monday

because Sundays hadn't yet become the unfortunate bookends

There was a rumor going around that I was too nostalgic

that I lived in the past

that I was incapable of learning or living in the moment

but I shot it down

with the quick and the dead

and like that---

the bubbles drifted toward one another and---

vanished