What if
What if these ghosts
are more than the real living more.
Pearlescent and glowy, ethereal and song worthy
so much more than the vapid pudding fleshy creatures that come out at noon
to haunt us with mundane converstaions on the weather or on television
those individuals who trap you in conversations
where no matter how much you step back from them
they step forward into your nostril vacinity
to assault you with their faint scent of stale cheese.
What if their ghost and memory is more interesting.
More distilled and curious and fascinating than the “real mccoy”.
And maybe Mccoy was just a schlep that someone told a nice story about in the aftermath.
What if that’s the better thing than the real thing?
The wishing thing. The fantastical thing. The mystery thing.
The thing that you acknowledge is better than the true thing.
What then?
Do you sit in your chair and sip tea with the ghost?
Because really, you know that experience might be more sublime and significant than what others might call “real”.
“Real” really isn’t very valuable under those circumstances.

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