A Short Reply

Dear K,

I just got back from that place where we met, and now a big part of me wishes I'd never left. But I had to we all have to, and everyone will. I'm settling into my grown up job, and I think that maybe I'm scheming for an escape. I'm going to bide my time though, build up supplies, so really at this point I guess it is a matter of where do I want to go.

So where do you want to go?

I'm putting together a crew. What if I bought a boat? Would you come and keep my eyes healthy?

We could get everyone that we never get bored with, a short list to be sure, and sail away to wherever, and someday we'd come back to visit the mainland and find that the world had changed while we were away and that after fifty years of sailing into sunsets we'd become younger and tanner than when we first left.

But I don't want to just live on a boat. I want to go inland, and so I'll bring my bicycle and make room for everyone else's bikes too. And speakers, and it will be a whole bright shining barge. We'll sail up rivers and over oceans and call out to other boats in the fog.

But really I don't want to do any of that.
Well I do, at least half of me does.
But I want to do it with somebody,
and not just a crew.

And don't worry that somebody isn't you,

But I do know who, I think it is, but I don't know if she'd ever allow herself the pleasure of just one person's company for a lifetime.

But still. I am planning an escape.

So where do you want to go?

K