Someone falls in love with someone but that person
falls in love with someone else, and that person falls
in love with a different person, and that person falls
in love with someone else too. I am the third person
and you are the fourth person. I am an ambulance
driver and you are an ambulance driver. I am
resuscitating someone in a basement and you are
resuscitating someone else in the same basement.
Are you falling in love with someone else? I ask from
across the basement but you can’t hear me. I am
being strangled by the asphyxiated person who I am
resuscitating and you are being strangled by the
asphyxiated person who you are resuscitating. I
hope this is it. I hope we all die just like this, in
someone else’s arms, young and beautiful and true.