Steve Messina
The first time I didn’t know what it was
there was a light periwinkle or blue haze
it smelled like honeysuckle
The whole campus at Hampshire College had that smell and I kept asking people “do you smell that?”
and I kept thinking of that episode of that’s incredible
A few hours later, there was talk about somebody burning themselves up in town a few miles away
my stomach started doing backflips at the idea of breathing somebody’s body in
The next day I saw the campus newspaper and it confirmed what happened