Antares

We had sky lanterns at our wedding that wasn’t even a

real wedding and in the movie Melancholia they have

sky lanterns at their wedding too and afterwards it is the

end of the world (sorry if I have spoiled it for you) our

lanterns went up into the sky as if they were literal wishes

then later on we wonder what we wished for and whether

it was the right thing and if it will be the end of the world.

I can tell you with confidence all of the lanterns are just

symbolic and if you want you can write your very own

messages to the universe on them we wrote no messages

but have still one unused lantern left as if the universe or

the end of the world would pay attention to that even if we

did write upon it if we did send it up there but how could it?

How could it though unused under the bed in a little box

fifteen years after the fact; paper and combustible material

and a frame flying up pretty to the atmosphere and landing

in the sea where precious wildlife might die entangled in it

or landing on the land where it might start an enormous fire

plus armageddon. Maybe not as a direct result but surely

eventually that it’d be a shame to waste it though we did not

consummate our not-real marriage that night instead we

argued strongly on our honeymoon and had nontraditional

sex on an island that used to be reserved just for convicts and

there are almost no roads at all so you have to go everywhere

by boat which is lovely and like some kind of paradise.