from Van Gogh's Ear, vol. 6

I said, "Yes." I was thinking marriage was a 24/7 performance art piece, theoretically unlimited. I added, "But how do we do it?"

"We'll develop protocols. Brush our teeth at the same sink. Breathe the same air. Our neural nets expand and entwine. We read each other to sleep. We'll be children again. Grow each other up. Become a symbiotic entity. And we need to pick out a suit for me. I must dress better to become Dean," Bobby Stein said.

--Kate Braverman