Wide Before Us
The man next to me says sorry he had a few beers before I got here but hey, I know how it goes, right? Look at us young people, everything spread wide open before us and we’re just drinking and laughing, oblivious to what’s coming. He tells me he’s 38, can I believe it? He says look at him he’s in his first figure drawing class. 38 and sorry he’s probably not much to talk to right now, he had a few before. Tells me Escher said sound is color at a slower speed. Says the light and the frequencies are all connected. That we are emotionally attached to random moments on absolute spectrums. Says I’m probably not following him, this isn’t his first tonight, sorry for making me listen to him going on. But that anyways it’s the essence of art what Escher said. Says we ought to study the connection between light and sound to know how we react to the days and coming days. Says that’s where it all starts, how we connect it. It’s all over for him though, he’s 38 and look at this picture of his best friend, he’s 52. Can I believe it, 52 years old his best friend. If he would have started young like me can I imagine what he could have done? Spent all these years on the antique shop and now he’s gotta close her down. Back to zero, sticking out like a sore thumb in classes full of people that look like me, people who have it all spread wide before them. It’ll never go back for him now though he says, he’s 38 and
Sorry that woman just smelled so good he couldn’t help but get a full breath. But I’m probably tired of listening to him, he was there a while before me and look at him he’s by himself and quite a few in. Says he didn’t know that Escher was a math guy but see, everything is connected. The more you study all of it from different perspectives the more prepared you are to take in the world and appreciate what time does to us. But I probably don’t care, look at all my friends laughing without a worry about where we’re headed. He’s been swinging hammer for the last year and shit, he probably doesn’t even know how he’ll see it when he’s 52 like his friend and oh look that’s him calling right now. Says anyhow be young while I am young, he’s got to answer this; it’s his best friend he told me about.