They say studies show the reason for reflections of Christmas lights on windows - It’s the particles, they say, that shoot like rocket ships through the air, bounce off surfaces then grip and reveal their tricks.
We have not yet travelled past Mars but we have grown wide and far between each other, on acid trips with life long friends we laugh at the stars and in book clubs at 4th and Alma nestled in a quiet apartment lofts discussing the sacrifice of Éponine, we too are caught in revolutions.
But it still seems the pop songs are the saddest songs to sing on Karaoke nights in city bars, where a million lights refracting inside my heart swell and surround the drunk glistening eyes around me swaying to and fro to “She loves you yeah yeah yeah”