The old world is dying and the new world
is actually also concurrently dying; it’s not
a good time. I heard they were able
to laser off your tattoo
of a ten-point spread; was there any discussion
of keeping it and lasering you off
instead? I’m just checking. I’m just feeling
fine. It’s a short straight line
from reading a book about a rich girl
growing up in New York City—
the high-rise and the hot stone and the shingled
ocean outpost—to taking 3:1 odds
on whether I can die and then come back. No
other way to make that much that fast.