Don’t Wait Up
Don’t Wait Up
Time and Place and Memory and Groucho
December 31, 2018
A Billion Miles Past Pluto
She was too tired to stay up until midnight so she has dozed off on the couch, the darkness and winter air just a breath away.
He watches her and smiles as he sips a Coke and Groucho Marx is being silly on the TV.
Eventually, he falls asleep as well.
When he wakes up it’s well past midnight and Groucho is gone.
And so is she.
And he asks himself if she were ever really there.
And he closes his eyes and reaches back, back, back for something that will give him the answer. –TK
Monday, December 31, 2018