You're the only one I've ever known to stare at the face of the clock on your wrist, carefully following the
tick.
tick.
tickin.
just so you could brag about what every two-eyed person missed-- catching the minute hand move, in its slight little twitch or maybe it was the hour I fail to remember which.
Saw it with your own two eyes you said to me while smiling and i shook my head in disbelief, amused at that tricky timing.
I looked at you and thought some thoughts of how your you-ness has always been a what you get is not what you see,
your patience forever a complexity,
and your determination, the perplexor needs its own personal illustrator . You've always known where you were headed but you also made sure that you'd take the longest, most
loopingly,
w i n d i ng-est, weirdest path to get and eat life's cake.
I knew I couldn't follow you but well I gave it a try and when you finally put your wings on I was just happy to see you fly