Liber Caeli - Chapter 33

Verses

02:13. I read that a season on Uranus can last about twenty-one years. Finally, a planet with realistic emotional pacing.

02:26. She has been gone eight months. My brain has promoted this to geological time.

02:41. The pale blue disk looks calm in photographs because photographs omit wind, temperature, distance, and text messages.

03:02. People say sudden change is Uranian. The change was sudden. Understanding it has not been.

03:17. I deleted her number and remembered it perfectly. Technology cannot uninstall meat.

03:30. A cat climbed onto my chest and began purring like a small generator licensed by no authority.

03:42. He does not know I am devastated. This makes him excellent company.

04:01. There is something obscene about the universe continuing after private catastrophe.

04:12. There is something merciful about it too.

04:29. Uranus keeps its ridiculous tilt. I keep mine.

04:45. Maybe healing is not standing straight again. Maybe it is discovering that straight was never cosmically required.

05:03. I hate sentences like that when they are true.

05:18. Dawn soon. The planet will still be there, unseen in daylight.

05:24. Absence from sight is getting less persuasive.

05:39. Cat demands food. Enlightenment postponed.

05:47. Fed cat.

05:49. Consider this my first successful ritual.