What Fades Away

In the future we will be faster and lighter.
In the future we will not worry about the things that fall away because they will clear the view.
We will understand the price of sacrifice and the weight that makes bones strong.
In the future we will be harder and sharper.
We will not be stainless steel. We will pass through moments and time like walls of colored smoke and be tinted in a thousand electric hues.
We will feel the stiff headwinds but affirm that the firmly planted feet of solid matter will never bend to angry air.
We will reignite the neurons sparked in the holy frenzy of blinding overstimulated honesty.
In the future we will not fly in flying cars.
In the future we will not be wired and "on-the-go".
We will stretch our roots and crumble concrete slabs if need be to soak in the soil of the land of the sun.
In the future we will live in tiny boxes filled with treasure and good food and clean carpet.
We will have well-worn edges.
We will shatter the crystal clear walls when crystal clear walls need shattering!
In the future we will blow-up the world.
In the future we will be the first to see alien invasions and the first to solve all our problems with dynamite including world hunger.
That is to say, we will discover the nutritional value of dynamite.
In the future we will glow a soft glow. We will make friends with disappointment. We will learn its quirks and invite it over for food and drink on weekends and tell it it doesn't have to try so hard.
In the future we will be ghosts with bicycle helmets and tubs of Hamburger Helper to fill the Lincoln Memorial. No one can stop "Mom's Hungry Phantom Monument Gang!"
In the future we will be falling. We will all fall.
But the clouds have never seemed so real and so close.

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Future! Future! 1, 2, 3!
Hope you don't take a dump on me!
Future! Future! Fight! Fight! Fight!
Hope my dreams don't turn out right.

...because I had that dream where all my teeth fall out again. And also I really wanted to make a peanut-butter and jelly sandwich but there were all theses frogs that kept turning into bugs on my kitchen floor and I was like, "gross" and then I had to pee but I couldn't pee but then I woke up and I actually had to pee...

So I hope that part doesn't happen so much all the time.