You waiting for the bus?
Oh yeah. Where else would I spend my time?
Couzens Hall, 9:00AM, 1/11/2024
procrastination — otherwise known as the human condition — extends to the nature of the weather. leave it to the start of a semester for the heavens to open. salt crystals cling to boots like cooked rice grains. a child scatters frozen nuts in hopes that they will bloom in the spring. she forgets the squirrels are on break, too. some of them will not survive the winter. you tiptoe and your feet crunch into dust, blue snow into black ash.
No school Monday?
Yeah, they just got off break and now they’re going back on break. Mucho break.
Hibachi-San, 12:00PM, 1/12/2024
the clock is stuck in a traffic jam, inching forward slowly, steadily. it will go forty-five in the fast lane and trap you behind a veil, if you’re not careful. check your rearview and suddenly it disappears. when we are not aware, we become uncomfortable, swollen, like a rat that has eaten insulation. i follow your gaze ahead, to the monotony, the beauty of the crowd. one must live in the moment. to be half of two things is to be whole of none.
Do you want to go to the Victors parade? The football team will be there!
Will there be candy?
I don’t think so—
Then no.
Ann Arbor Coffee Roasting Company, 3:00PM, 1/13/2024
there are moments where the world rotates one-dimensionally. time and space funnel into a line. the parade swings past, and you are no longer next to me. we are one entity, a collection, a singularity, drawn to the crowd, to the players. any less and i lose you in the crowd and someone catches you as you fall — your eyes lock, a circuit complete, diodes shining. any further and you end up in front of the bus — whether or not it stops in time is trivial. in one dimension, there are no decisions.
luckily, we live in a world with three. left, right, forward. the sun is still out, but bright blue stars sparkle on state street.
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