For a moment I am a thesaurus pairing at a breakneck pace

ideas with corollaries, antonyms with alternatives, symmetry with simulacra. and then I am back in the moment. recalling, lives ago, looking forward to this future, married to my (smart, lovely, mad) sweetheart. perennially fighting over homes and children and unmeant slights and trivia. I chose otherwards, nor ever doubted that, though it would have been [...]