Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency

by Chen Chen

I meant them. Not every word. But every sound.

What do you remember about the earth? If we could communicate fully, there would be no need to communicate. If we could love perfectly, there would be no need to love. If we could finish grieving, there would be no need to live. If we could touch completely, there would be no need.

Do you remember the two types of eternity, how we learned about them in a Wegmans parking lot,

do you remember you were driving, we were halfway home, only eight minutes from Wegmans, remember when we measured distance in terms of Wegmans, like it was a lighthouse or pyramid or sacred tree,

is memory the best eternity we can make? The only?