And sometimes, the answers just come in the mail

Well. I picked up the package. It’s BIG! Daunting. I’m a bit scared to open it, really. Big heavy clunky things inside. I’m glad I didn’t pick it up on the way to work, I wouldn’t have lasted the day without opening it.

And the answers?

Sometimes the answers just come in the mail.

And one day, you get that letter you’ve been waiting for forever.

And everything it says is true.

And then in the last line it says, burn this .

I’m nervous. I haven’t been nervous for a long time. While walking the half-block home from the post office this afternoon, I thought: “I’m holding my future in my hands”. Or is it my past? Or neither?

Now I in you without a body move.

And in our hearts we fly.

Standby.

Good morning. Good night.

Same Time Tomorrow , Laurie Anderson (both excerpts)