RAY

"You have to jump off a cliff and build your wings on the way down." ~ Ray Bradbury


So here's my dream for the time of soul-travel.  The two Ray's - you and Ray Carver and me, at a little joint by the ocean, the chairs sinking into the sand, strands of the dried grass umbrellas lifting in the breeze, sipping a cold beer, mine and Bradbury's will have a lime squeezed in it, Carver's will be stout and black and frothy.  We're sitting back, listening to the ocean and once in a while one of you will say, 'man that was a bitch of a book to write.'  And we'd keep staring at the ocean eyes steady and unfocused, and nod.  We'd be happy, so happy because this is what we'd dreamed heaven would be.  And it was.