I had just opened this to write you

 

Something,

 

I have no idea what,

 

Just to touch you,

to try

to touch--

 

to--

 

break glass

I suppose,

 

because it feels like an emergency.

 

I don't mean that it feels this moment like an emergency,

but that it has felt like an emergency

for a long time now,

and I look at that little red metal box

with the sliver of glass and the sign.

 

The sign:

 

“In case of emergency”

 

In case of emergency,

 

do this.