Came out the other side moments later, hands full of matter, waking up from the dream of a bullet
tearing through the middle of my body.
I no longer understand anything for longer than a long moment, or the time it takes to receive the
shot.
This kind of gravity is like falling through a cloud, forgetting it all, and then being told about it
later. On the day you fell through the cloud…
It must be true. If it were not, then when did these strands of silver netting attach to my hair?
The problem was finding that you were real and not just a dream of clouds.
If you weren’t real, I would address this letter to one of two entities: myself, or everyone else. The
effect would be equivalent.
The act of falling happens in time. That is, it takes long enough for the falling to shear away from
the moments before and the moments after, long enough for one to have thought I am falling. I
have been falling. I continue to fall.
Falling through a ring, in this case, would not mean falling through the center of the annulus—a
planet floats there. Falling through the ring means falling through the space between the objects
that together make the ring.
On the way through, clasp your fists around the universe.
Nothing but ice-gravel. But open your hands when you reach the other side. Quickly, before it melts.
What did I leave you?
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