Everything by Andrea Cohen

Everything by Andrea Cohen

Author:Andrea Cohen [Cohen, Andrea]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-10-24T08:46:27+00:00


In the Car with the Theoretical Physicist

It’s hard to hear her—

not because she’s

theoretical, but because

of the dark matter

between us, what takes

up space but won’t

engage with light. My

jacket is black, she says,

tugging on it, because

it absorbs light. My

muffler is loud and our

being here together

or anywhere, highly

unlikely. Now she’s

on a plane, now I’m

at a table in Madrid.

People are always

leaving. We could call

the five or six mass

extinctions mass

migrations, but still they

would be sad. Everything

moves too fast into the past

and future. It’s hard to keep

up, hard to not try to disguise

my voice and call in to the radio

station when the special guest

is the theoretical physicist,

hard not to ask: What should

we do if we stumble

into a black hole?

Duck and cover? Roll

with it? I’ll take my answer

with a stiff drink, I say,

and she laughs, which

may be the only response

adequate to all this falling.



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