e plug in our rechargeable souls and wait for night with its mess of tenderness to seep into our Bosch bodies as they soak up the overflow. We were listening to Throbbing Pink Jesus and getting it all wrong. Again. Another dead end. You were waiting for the event but we are the event. Nothing else is going to happen so we might as well keep dreaming each other. At least we know we exist in that script.
      We’re in a cowboy bar. I ride a mechanical bull. You hear a man in a Stetson say “I’d crawl 100 miles through the desert to suck the cock of the last man to fuck Dolly Parton.”
      The next day a plane crashes into a kitchen. All the woman remembers is a man with his head on fire.
      These things seem connected. Different parts of my body argue about the connections. Antichrist/Antifreeze. You can’t help it, everything is connected. Synchronicity. It’s a word lodged in your brain like a tumor. Asphalt/myfault/yourfault/ourfault.
      Did you know that color drains from the eyes of the dead? Did you know Hitler was a vegetarian? Do you know why the sky is blue?
      The alarm keeps ringing. Every morning at 8am the alarm rings. It rings and rings until we turn it off and merge with the city.
      This is not what I wanted.
      I wanted to set off on an epic quest to penetrate the pores of midnight. I wanted you to fuck me to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir’s hallelujah chorus. I wanted a blimp with our names on it to impregnate the dead sky. I wanted to say something important that doesn’t sound like everyone else’s something important.
      Would you like fries with that?
      I’m up all night, telephone sprouting from my ear, fingering the umbilical cord that carries your disembodied voice into my body. Distance makes me cold and crazy. Distance makes me feel more real. And though I cry Hollywood tears I have never trusted your hands. Divorced from the body I can almost believe in you.
      You reading a book on the end of painting. The end of the novel. The end of theater. The end of pornography. The end of video unreeling towards the end of the millennium that ends us all.
      This is what you were waiting for.
                What are you waiting for?