Dust Kids - Andy Shauf

Charlie asks me if I believe in reincarnation.

I say «No, but please go on.»

He says «I was reading about these kids, they’re like two years old,

recalling their past lives.

Could you imagine if that was your kid?"Rose asks if we want another, I say «I'll take another life.»

«Do they say what happens in between?"He says, «Some talk about heaven and

watching from up above.»

And I imagine sitting on that shelf, watching over you just waiting to be

someone else.

If I died and you died too, could we sit up in heaven and choose to live on

together?

They say after you die you start drifting skyward and it reminds me of a dream

I had

Where I was shot in a shopping mall.

I died and started rising until I dove

headfirst into the ground.

I woke up and told Judy, she started laughing at me, just laughing in the

morning light.

Maybe hell is coming back as the dust that you sweep off the floor forevermore.