I have found the notes you hide. The first—not of your notes but of the ones I found—was stuffed in the window of a city bus. I saw it was a page from a larger work, numbered 27 and beginning in the middle of a conversation. I liked that message. Don’t we all meet in [...]
I want to live in a world where pearls cannot be sold or traded, only given. I want us to discard our scuba gear and aquaculture. I have been training to hold my breath. This pearl was formed forty-one meters deep. I could not reach it four years ago. I have conditioned the vessels in [...]
I don’t have a plan in the world. I have the wide open sky and a bag of dried mangoes. My last girlfriend called them slices of sunshine. I have kept the phrases my closest friends gave me. A teenager is “a case of ginger ale”, empty praise from the human resources director is “a [...]
I thought I had lost everything when the market crashed, but I have not nearly lost enough. I spent a year afraid of the news. Every day turned another one of my investments into dust. So here I am; I would have to live for two hundred years to earn it all back. The impossibility [...]
I want us to make something that will never last. I want to break onto a rooftop with a shovel and leave a picture in the snow. Only a few executives in the buildings still taller will see it; they will wonder about it, and by next snowfall it will be gone. I want five [...]
I want a return to childhood, I want to be like turritopsis nutricula, the jellyfish you showed me, tiny and nacreous. I want to live forever, grow mature then revert to innocence, neither die nor stagnate, be able to erase and rediscover my form, my sexual fantasies, my world. You must know I still visit [...]
When I finally found my camera it was back at my table at the café, exactly where I had left it to pay. How did you know I would come back? Perhaps you returned every day, set the camera down and watched. It is such a crowded café. I suppose the owner must have been [...]
I hear that one hundred thousand people pass through my metro stop every day. I stayed up last night trying to count that high. I counted for five hours and I only reached thirty-six thousand. I fell asleep as the sun was rising. I saw the dawn’s first joggers. I used to sleep with a [...]
In the place I want to find, the autumn never ends. The leaves don’t fall but float, and every time we kiss, a green leaf turns to orange. In a secret field, you will run up to a scarecrow. It will lift its pumpkin head and rake us free a tunnel through the sky. The [...]
I want to meet you without ever planning to meet, sit next to you on the subway and get off at the wrong stop. We’ll change our clothes, buy five dollar outfits and chase cats through alleys, steal the cameras of tourists to take pictures of graffiti, follow them back to their hotels to give [...]