Transatlantic

The last twenty years were good for practically everybody save the dead. But maybe for them as well. Maybe the Almighty Himself has turned a bit bourgeois and uses a credit card. For otherwise time’s passage makes no sense. Hence memories, recollections, values, deportment. One hopes one hasn’t spent one’s mother or father or both, or a handful of friends entirely as they cease to hound one’s dreams. One’s dreams, unlike the city, become less populous the older one gets. That’s why the eternal rest cancels analysis. The last twenty years were good for practically everybody and constituted the afterlife for the dead. Its quality could be questioned but not its duration. The dead, one assumes, would not mind attaining a homeless status, and sleep in archways or watch pregnant submarines returning to their native pen after a worldwide journey without destroying life on earth, without even a proper flag to hoist. 1992