“It’s not the volts that get you. It’s the amps.”

The music was playing again.  She felt the lightning bolt, the supernova, the black-hole-collapse in her chest.  Can you feel this way and not attach it to something, to someone? Is that why we seek?  Because in its unattached, free-floating form, it’s just too much?  Like a too-strong electric current which, if not grounded, converts luminance to immolation?  Burns you to a crisp?

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