first persieds

i'm such a lunk she cried
after spending all evening looking at reddit
and salon. you're not  a lunk he protested
you is sexy and the hardest working woman
i know. she said
i'm a lunk. i get home from work and do NOThing
i might as well watch tv. hey, when are those
meteors coming? isn't that tonight?
yes, they are
what time
all night
but when's the best
they peak at two. coming from the northeast according
to the internet.
let's go.
will you drive, bitte?


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there are clouds all around
  a clear space over their heads.
they spread the blanket and lay down.
five minutes or maybe fifteen he says
i can't believe we aren't seeing anything
woah! did you see that?
no.where?
just above the treeline, do you think the trees
are blocking our view? i'm
 sorry you didn't woah!
 they both shout as a sparkler dashes
itself iacross the sky above.

they hi five and hug.
that was the biggest i've ever seen!
me too god i'm so glad we came.

they lie back and wait.
she shifts, ignores the sciatic
he lights a cigarette. clouds creep
from the west,  wispy icefloes
on the night's sea, stars bleed through.

it's been five or fifteen minutes with no sign.
maybe if we look at one spot he says.
no, i flick my eyes over everything.
















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every time she begins to go
another pair flashes. he sees it or she sees it
or they both do. this could go on all night.

thicker puffs of cloud move in, with huge
cracks, like summer in the north pole. she
imagines herself in an ice boat at night
with auroras all around. he says you know

i love you so much. and she does, she knows
it and says i love you too and wonders
how long they will be able to share this
memory of her first time. she thinks

and it will all  fall apart. he says, look you can
see the ocean in the clouds and that one over there
looks like a giant head of brocolli
she looks p at the clouds rollin over her
imagines what it would be like
if they just lay down together
when the future storms come
and let the water pour over them imagines
them here like these clouds tonight
she's ready to gpanyway, the peak is over
he says it's all down hill from here,
and one throws itself at them
from the northeast,digs   a channel
in the atmosphere =rains beauteous sparks
from the ashes of an explosion
into their photon detectors.
so this was really the first
 time you saw them he asks.
yep. first time

lol, i feel like a gamma ray detector
he gets it. that's what's so cool.
nopenope
she says it
that's the best cool.
his grin lights the night.