Grandma
says, “Katy, you need to get out more.”
She
says, “You need to go DO something. Do it
all.”
She
says, “Katy, you need to experience the
world while you are still young.”
Grandma
says a lot of things, and all of the things she says are things like these
things, and she says things like these things practically all of the time.
We
hear her every word. We roll her every word around in our hands. Slowly.
Considering each for shape and for size. Smoothness and weight. Impact and
echoes and related after-effects. For potential to forfend flesh shadows.
We
consider Grandma’s words, but we know better than Grandma. We know there is too
much to do in here to ever go outside.