Watching Her Highlight Her Bucket List

is being on the periphery of grandeur unfolding
It's an actual place on a map and I have a personal visa to visit

I'm not sure she knows she has a distinctive wiggle
when she is this happy

So far, I assisted in accomplishing two items
In two days, it will be three
and her list will be that much closer to done

In this adventure novel, I am the plucky side kick with horn-rim glasses and occasional sage advice
In the action figure package, I am the shorter assistant carrying the clipboard right before the lab accidentally births the superhero and changes everything

They don't tell you about this aspect of love-

when you are a member of the ovation
when you are bearing witness to dreams
when you are standing next to a supernova discovering herself
       and it's your job to hold her purse
Knees quaking, throat raw from screaming, "Yes bitch! SLAY!"

Humbled because your friend is in an act of becoming
and you are not only at the show-
you are a season ticket holder sitting in the goddamn front row

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