Step to the high bay window. Look out at the murmur on the plain: a crowd in tux and gown. Beside me, a hiss: Jung whispers "The Wedding of Filthy & Rich." The couple mingle--champagning until friends elevate them atop the Earth Ball. Totter and logroll across the North Pole, dance drunkenly on continents, then fall. I sip flutes amid the throng. The guest by me hisses "She had no say, not one detail. She might as well be one of those Rockettes the groom hired; except Not as pretty. One more prop, in his clan's display." My eye uneasily looks away; pans to horizon: golden future-towers shine beneath black starry sky. Not night! The lawn lit by fierce sun-blaze. I think "It seems so stark; not Martian haze." A Lunar wedding instead? Yes! Overhead A benedictory angel smiles blue and white: Crescent Earth. "Sloppy dream!" I growl. "Air, or airless?" But then these guests are careless; wealth is their air. Sip champagne on bare grass under domeless sky.

NOTES IN THE MORNING

• Earth ball, then Earth shining in black sky: as I biked across Stanford campus at dusk, a lit globe shone in the lobby of the computer center.
• Martian haze versus Lunar clarity: after dance class, driving home from San Francisco, I re-entered the smog of Silicon Valley. I need to move--though another dream that night warned me the cities to the east are too smoggy. San Francisco and Honolulu are pricy, but have the cleanest air. Sea-winds. Move there.

It took me four more years of saving up, but I did move to San Francisco--and was healthier there. It had partly been that South Bay smog keeping me so sick. Or the champagne bubbles of all those tech zillionaires.

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