Infinity, Jewel
Prologue:
…in the picture
Jewel was wearing a shirt
that said
Who Will
Save Your Soul?
but the way the text was laid out
he read it as
Who Will
ave Your Soul?
and was like
What the fuck does that mean?
because
he was intoxicated
and lonely
and the ‘S’ was
hiding on the other side
of her chest…
Today:
He doesn’t remember how it happened
but he can remember it happened
effortlessly
as if he had no choice in the matter
even though if he’d been given that choice
he would’ve more than most likely responded:
‘Yes’,
anyway
it happened
just like it happened
when it happened
just like that
and the next morning he woke up in bed,
rolled over,
and he was Facebook friends
with Jewel
they had breakfast together
he made omelets
they ‘liked’ a few links
posted by Scientific American
and during the whole time
in which this happened
he was thinking they’d had sex
the previous night
but what they’d really done
was simultaneously share a particularly
vibrant quote by Jules Verne
he’d made a dumb joke about her middle name
being Vern
even though it wasn’t
and they’d ate/eaten
the rest of their breakfast
in silence
and then Jewel got up
and left
but before leaving
she turned to him
and smiled like a recent photo
of herself standing in Aspen
obviously
for the purpose
of skiing
and she whispered something
about the Big Bang being
a sunburn
and what comes after
pealed skin
and then his roommate
walked in on the whole thing
and requested she sing
What If God Was One Of Us
and Jewel was like
I didn’t write that song
and I was like,
so ends part one…
Multiverse Johnson 