#375

If I can sit next to another
human being, I can sit next to any
human being in the world.

I can embody this hand of proximity,
sitting next to you will be no different
than sitting next to someone
in India, or France, or the Arctic.

And if that's the case,
there are some potential responses:

that I can traverse space and geography,
or that space and geography are an illusion,
or time is an illusion, the time to find
that other person. Or, my favorite,

that we're all one touch away,
and if I can touch you, you are me,
and together we live
in the crater lake that is my iris.