We\u2019re in a dive bar, drinking well whiskey on the rocks. There\u2019s a \u201cbest falls ever\u201d compilation on mute. All I can think is this is the fucking life as a man jumps onto a trampoline and falls through it, keeps falling through the earth itself, forever, his whole body eventually shattered into nothing by the core.<\/p>\n
I want to whisper \u201cdo you still love me\u201d to you, but it\u2019s too quiet in here. There\u2019s little I fear more than being overheard.<\/p>\n
Last call, the bartender says. I turn to ask you if you\u2019d like another drink, but you\u2019re gone. We\u2019d been fighting about something neither of us will remember tomorrow. You\u2019ve hit the point where you go to the bathroom to decompress.<\/p>\n
A snowboard attempts to slow down but can\u2019t. He crashes full speed into a fence. Why was the fence there? Why do we find beauty in destruction?<\/p>\n
The bar lights come up and the video is turned off, leaving behind a Roku screensaver: a whole tiny city of purple scrolls past.<\/p>\n
You still aren\u2019t back, and all I can think is some calamity has swept you from here. Maybe I\u2019ll see you again, one day, in a different video above a different bar, about you being sucked into the toilet and spit out in some other dive, in some other city, and returning to a man who looks like me but isn\u2019t\u2014not quite.<\/p>\n
Goodnight, FailArmy. Goodnight, little broken world. Goodnight, love, which seems, in the darkness, to have slipped away.<\/p>\n
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