I know that in less than a breath the floor will literally drop out from under me and I will fall. And so, quickly, I realize that I can’t depend on the floor. I realize that the only constant in that tube that will remain when I fall is the back of the slide. And so, you guys, I lean back into that slide so hard, willing myself to become one with the slide. I try to convince my brain that the thing that’s supporting me at this moment isn’t the floor which is about to literally disappear but what’s supporting me is that which I’m leaning into. I press every inch of myself into the back wall of my clear coffin and the floor drops out from under me and I fall.
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