Enter Kevin Bacon 
 I’m trying to build a scale 
 Reality <--> Surreality<--> Just Plain Not Reality 
 I dunno
 
 the tiger balm is helping, though 
 -- 
 we go to this place in Chinatown 
 like a habit 
 so I shoot him a message 
 “r u coming up or not?” 
 my toenail 
 the tiny toe (right side) 
 split all the way down the middle to the cuticle
 
 (maybe the word cuticle 
 is expressly 
 for the ones on your fingers?)
 
 I’ve always waited for this moment 
 not so much looking forward to it 
 but wondering what it would be like
