it is late and i

it is late and i should be asleep. i tell myself this fact often, as i am still reading in the tiny hours of the morning. but somehow, my body is reluctant to listen. perhaps the world needs me awake at the moment. wondering about the scientific facts that make the moon look so terribly vast and endless as it did tonight. it looked like a giant, yellow, bird floating through the sky. impetuous. i think of the REM song where he sings about the moon. "what if there were two, side by side in orbit." i think of jake vander zanden and his cancer. his sickness that must feel as vast as the moon. as overwhelmingly large. i think of the unpredictability of life. how it is so often a thin sheet of glass, perched tenuously atop the ledge of a twenty eight story building. teetering. oh, how precious our moments~

Posted by at February 21, 2003 01:32 AM

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