what went wrong just before you plunged into the new mexican desert

did you pray did you think of your wife did you try to pull it up or had you given up outside the island of stability

were you gone in an instant or did you survive long enough to suffer our primal scientific cabal or did you die with your secrets intact

now the kids you never knew are grown and once a year they make the long trip down to look upon the christmas lights and wonder where the hell you had gone

bhagiti 7.9.07 perrysburg, oh