Base Jumping

Jump off a precipice with parachutes and cords tied to your legs and the wind. Swim with sharks. Smoke. Drive madly in the rain. Don't look three seconds beyond these moments or you will learn the biggest lesson of the future- fear. Blink and you will miss the moment when you are most alive. Know now. Don't look back or you will find all the wives of Lot, frozen and salty. Love somebody and be the greatest daredevil in God's little side show. Jump hoops of fire over twenty trucks full of heartaches. Lie against the wall behind the light we are told not to walk into. Go to places where only love and death can be found. We are too dim and foggy, we can't see beyond our outstretched hands. Tomorrow I will set someone's mind on fire. I promise to choose my enemies carefully but love wantonly. I promise to create images using the bones of my hesitations. I promise to swallow.