- Almost Dorothy | Photo by Neil de la Flor
Dear Universe, thank you for ma, marionettes, and marshmallows.
Dear Universe, thank you for pizza and patience, pasta and pizzazz.
Dear Universe, thank you for violins and photographs, black strings and tiger’s eyes. Thank you for lost things and for the places where we can’t be found even when we are in the plain sight of headlights.
Dear Universe, thank you for the demons, desire, and despair.
Dear Universe, thank you for angels, affection, and affirmation.
Dear Universe, thank you for sisters and dinosaurs, donkeys and daffodils.
Dear Universe, thank you for achoo and monkey see, monkey do.
Dear Universe, thank you for the language of the body and breath, the body and the breath, and baby’s breath.
Dear Universe, thank you for classic rock and classical music. Thank you for poetry and the trees we sacrifice to write upon. Thank you for the pimple cream that makes this giant pimple under my left eye fade away.
Dear Universe, thank you for Macy Gray, Macy’s and all the booty in the world. I mean beauty.
Dear Universe, thank you for Alanis Morissette, Morissey and Madonna.
Dear Universe, thank you for the mirage that is not a mirage but a mirror-of-age.
Dear Universe, thank you for entering my dreams, offering me 30 million $, a partial Botox session, a tour of the White House chandelier gallery and free food. And thank you for waving the $16 entrance fee for me.
Dear Universe, thank you for the sun, the sky, the birds and bugs and for the existence of Justin Bieber toothbrushes. Thank you for my house and socks and shoes. Thank you for the old man in the sea and the sea inside the old man and the young man, the old woman and the young woman.
Dear Universe, thank you for thankfulness and for giving me all that I need in me.
Dear Universe, thank you for “Last Friday Night” and the next and then the next.
Dear Universe, thank you for Einstein and the invention of kisses.
Dear Universe, thank you for observation and analysis, emotional intelligence and Ginger Ale.
Dear Universe, thank you for neutrinos and photography.
Dear Universe, thank you for Lasik eye surgery because now I get the answers when I listen.
And thank you for hearing me.
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