floating on a plane of champagne
adrift
longing for those I hold so dear
the best way to cope
the music fills my ears, the drink fills my brain, the couch envelopes my form
unfathomable happiness, joy
close to bursting at the seems

it's amazing that I can still type
so fast the keyboard might catch on fire
how to deal with the sudden separation, the alacrity of the surgeon's deft slice,
friends separated
yet only temporarily, until the surgeon stitches them back together
another year at school

how to deal
the lightbulbs searing images into my eyebulbs

I now inhabit the plane of oblivion, I finally understand