she texted him earlier that
morning she had witnessed a tsunami in her dreams
he was encouraged she called it a
dream not a nightmare
he held his tongue
she was prescient
that evening she texted
apologizing for having gone missing that afternoon
I conked out
Im absolutely spent
Feels like Im carrying the weight of the world on my shoulders
he texted back and asked if she
caught up with the tsunami in her dreams and surfed it
thats what he do
give a force of Nature a head
start and try to catch it
it rarely worked out for him
but it kept his optimism honed
if he had a solitary thing going
for him throughout his life it was some would say his abject optimism
Really in the face of all odds they scowled
Hell in the face of all odds was
the best time to be optimistic Improbable wasnt impossible Never forget
he didnt
improbably he met her
Who saw that comin(mebbe she did)
unfortunately no sooner had he texted
her he saw on his muted television monitor
a pictures worth a thousand words he didnt need to listen to someone tell him
what he saw A SPECIAL REPORT he
imagined the voiceover We interrupt
our regular programming rolling titles under the film footage indicated
Emergency officials declared the tsunamis seismic intensity a level XI
Devastating
he knew the XI was against a
possible XII gradients
it struck the coast of Japan
where the decommissioned Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power plant is
as one did five years earlier
the seabed remains at radioactive
levels hundreds of times more than it was prior to the three nuclear core meltdowns
which cant be cleaned up
engineers say the tools havent been invented yet
engineers say the tools havent been invented yet
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo
Abe recently encouraged people to repatriate the district
his government has deemed it safe
maybe Abe ought to move there much like Michigan Governor Rick Synder ought to move and live in Flint where his myopic decision contaminated and destroyed the citys fresh water infrastructure – fuckin criminal
his government has deemed it safe
maybe Abe ought to move there much like Michigan Governor Rick Synder ought to move and live in Flint where his myopic decision contaminated and destroyed the citys fresh water infrastructure – fuckin criminal
she was good
he figured hed wait a bit before texting her
maybe shed find it on her own
ANGST
it
straddled his shoulders like a stone gargoyle
he
crossed the livingroom flipped the receiver Off
even muted Bad News still reigned
he went outside to watch the sun set
he remembered forty years earlier
another sunset the same day the day he got married
a sunset filled with promise
his wife was dead
she had been dead fourteen years
when they were apart she traveled
for work they tried to watch the sun set share it at a distance
he called it their celestial bond
Youre so romantic she said Youre such
a romantic despite your gruff your rough and tumble exterior I think you would have been an
ascetic if you hadnt married me lived off in the mountains somewhere Happily
Youre just a romantic at heart she chided him You must know that
about yourself
fourteen years later that romantic
in him had hardened
it laid too long unpractised
he watched the sun set with jaded eyes
his fone chimed
she texted I know now what the tsunami meant My period came
Shit he laughed
she certainly had a way of buoyanting his optimism
his fone chimed
she texted I know now what the tsunami meant My period came
Shit he laughed
she certainly had a way of buoyanting his optimism
1834, Friday,
16 9. 16
1121, Monday,
19 9. 16
