for Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022), dir. Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert.
This is how I become a superstar: they saw how I sing and wanted me to do it for the rest of my life. I am a teacher. I listened to what my mother said then became her. I submitted fairy tales I created in my computer when I was eleven and now I am a director. I never quit my english club and talk politics on podiums across the cities. I go to different schools and perform magic with my hands as a hairdresser. I dive into the oceans and swim with my face towards the sky. You are a nurse when I am a writer. An actor where I am a waitress. You never leave your school and make the greatest formula in the history of humankind, and I watch you on the television before my husband turn it off. You wear a glasses, just like the one we bought from the optician who said that we look beautiful. You are an apple waiting for a careful hand to pick you up, and I am a stalk at our tree watching your green turn red as the summer peaks. We glance at each other on a train in Japan. We break up at a small restaurant in India. We fail to reach the last bus in one rainy evening in Bandung. We meet in a planetarium one tuesday, where you say you make sure airplanes are safe in the wind, and I tell you birds look at the stars to fly home.
On the ten million years away earth where our stars were never the ones we know, you are one of those birds, I am a worm breathing my blind life to your sunrise. I love you.
