I heard I could tie all my veins and arteries together and they would circle the earth so I thought if we laced ours together we could reach the moon and watch stars blaze like one hundred billion cigarettes in the dark skinny dip through purple orange green supernova explosions curl up in a crater and watch the world spin like a cumbersome ballerina then we’d dive back down from the moon to the mothership and unbraid our veins, separating mine from yours. But without those vascular knots we’d start drifting apart just like Pangaea. We’d both begin forgetting how we ballroom danced through constellations together how our fingertips wrinkled like walnuts outside the atmosphere how we sunbathed under the incandescence of blue supergiants