after Sandra Simonds
That the weather in the Catskills welcomes in the summer
That we once mistook Ghost for a horror film with a hunky male lead
That I was the only girl who couldn’t sleep at the slumber party
That it exposed fears I had bundled under the blankets with The Little Mermaid
That my mom probably shouldn’t have told me that people grow up, leave their
families, and (if lucky) eventually die
That now I lay me down to sleep is a terrible prayer for kids
That I always wondered what happened after Kellerman’s closed its doors
That I was too fixated on the opportunities Patrick Swayze’s character missed
to care about whatever was happening with Demi Moore
That I also cried through the credits of Ghost Dad
That Zarathustra’s advice would have been helpful far earlier
That if there is no you then it’s true that “you” will never know
That if there is a “you” then you don’t depend on legs or the rest of
the body
That no one told us how mermaids breathe under water
That transcendence is nothing to cry about
That Patrick Swayze became like the wind, a ball of light