I'll see you again someday. And we'll go to that café where no one ever really goes. I'll save us a table while you get your egg and lettuce sandwich. And I'll rave to you about some harebrained theory of mine about the mind-body problem, and you'll be reading a bound copy of Plato's Parmenides in the original Greek, and I'll ask if you're paying attention, and you'll respond with a systematic refutation of my thesis from its consequents down to the premises. I'll look at my lap and contemplate the implications of potentially ordering a double chocolate cookie from the café. You'll seek my advice regarding invertibility in wheels, and I'll provide examples, relate them to general cases, and prove a theorem or two. You'll take mental note of my scribbles. I'll ask you if maybe you'd like to take a picture of the napkins, and you'll tell me I already know you don't need to. And you'll glance at me pocketing them in the back of my trousers. I'll take the opportunity to stare into your eyes. Yours will meet mine for a split second. You'll ask if I still wanted that cookie I was thinking about. I'll decline. You'll tell me a screenplay of your fiancée's was picked up the other day, and that it was to be directed by that West African arthouse filmmaker, the one who had to move stateside after the revolutions. I'll ask if it was the romantic drama about shared dissociative identity disorder or the historical thriller about the first metaversal country told without the use of characters or dialogue. You'll say it was the Kafkaesque piece she dictated during REM sleep over the course of eleven weeks. I'll say I'll make sure to keep an eye out for it in the film festival circuit. You'll tell me to look at you. You'll then tell me that in the interest of continuing our valued friendship, it is of paramount importance that I understand that Nuuk was the fourth greatest regret of your life. I'll apologize for staring. You'll forgive me, and you'll plead that I not do anything unfriendly in the future. If nothing else, I'll promise that much.