too pat for fiction:
run into a friend at the airport
on the same flight;
I visited MIT from his room,
long ago, it convinced me.
accidentally sit in his seat:
we're mirrored in the same row,
and I've the other window.
reflected, sit next to an MIT music prof
who in the course of conversation asks
"how did you come to apply to MIT?"
laughing, I
gesture across the aisle