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For Clair Patterson
I was guessing your atomic weight but only like a gentleman and raising a glass to 1953 and the scientists toiling in the past. I was stealing 26 packs of gum and hoisting home a big bag of napkins. Let's celebrate the age of the Earth and wreck my house like we've always done in the past.
Though I kissed my body goodbye, I couldn't stop looking at the clock.
Emily, your brain is such a magical mess. Emily, we're floating drunk upon the abstract. Emily, our time amounts to nothing at all.
I was drinking stolen rum on the beach and sifting through my friends' memories. Let's stay up way too far past our bedtime. La la la la la la la la. I was stealing copper wire and paint and shooting every bird in the tree. Let's drink to Charles Willson Peale and walk 4,000 miles out to Moscow alone.
Um.
Though I kissed my memory goodbye, I couldn't stop looking at the clock.
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