Pungsnotded

Expiration Date

Crass was right. It is best before. Right before. With toes clenched, arms out, ready to fall. It is going to feel great and scary and make your spine all electric. Right before the needle hits the skin, a pause, this moment is better than the stick. And right before things became confusing, right before the start, it was better. The waiting, thinking about the taste. Because when these things were simply anticipated, simply planned they weren’t done. It is the heartbeat, the moment of silence, and the time suspended in air, before the land, before the water, the cold, the shock. Cold teeth, warm neck. Plunge. So we wait, and we draw this moment out.