A Brief History of the Future

I love my wife for her use of indefinite pronouns.Often she will walk into a roomand ask me if I’ve seen it.I have seen the northern lights many times,but never around here.I have seen a number of celebrities in person,but I know she’s talking about Jim Jarmusch,how she saw him without mein the West Villageand didn’t really care except that I did,and so took his picture.She knows all about the categorical imperative.I know there are these bonds that vibrateand when my phone died what diedwas that picture, his crazy white hair from behindlike feathers, a dwarf star, that kitschy glowing effectin movies when a hero wields a magic swordfor the first time. That was the Middle Agesmeaning none of those people had ever seen a sandwich.I have seen several things that were not there,but I don’t do that anymore. Other timesshe will walk into a room as if along a pier or jettymoving towards the pointwhere the world as spectacleand the world as experience meet.

I have seen it.