To Nerds and Romantics, at Computers Everywhere

Imagine yourself the sort

	who if offered a doorway to Faerie
	would step through

	or if aliens swung by your house
	with an all-expense-paid trip to the Lesser Magellanic
	(no return)
	would grab a towel and go.

Then imagine

	they give you a day to say goodbye.

What
oh what
would you say goodbye to?

	Tell your mother?
	Tell your lover? (he's not allowed to come along,
			  though he wouldn't want to)
	Tell your best friend? (who would.)

Would you have sex for hours and hours
or cry as the sun set
and walk the night, watching stars, until the dawn.

	Immerse yourself in Casablanca
	or horror double features
	and a trip to McDonald's.

What would you remember of humans?

Why aren't you with them now?

*****
M.A. Mohanraj
February 16, 1994