microcosm

I was driving to work, listening to “Tom’s Diner,” the original, a capella one Vega recorded, and the beauty of its simplicity hit me and I realized that I wanted to be there, and the usual rush of emotion when I know I want to be somewhere other than where I’m at made me smile, and I started crying on the off-ramp because that fucking melody, that swiped, plagiarized, austere, uncomplicated melody will live forever, but for that moment I was at a diner on a city watching Suzanne watch the world go by, and it was a beautiful place.