STATIC FIREWORKS

Static is the last thing you'll hear when you see me...
-2-Pac Shakur

The air is so dry in Utah. It's a void of moisture. My sinuses shrivel and agitate, crying for some dihydrogen monoxide. There's one bright side to the missing humidity here. Late at night after lights-out I saw little flashes of light as I tossed and turned in my hotel bed. I would trail my hand along a pillow and see bursts of orange-white spark in no apparent order. Static electricity can be beautiful. But it can also be dangerous. Say for example I had doused my body in gasoline before turning to bed. See? Not cool. The ignition source is already there. I'll have to remember not to play with flammables, and especially not to dunk my body in them or take a nail polish remover shower. Filling up gas in my rental car even got me paranoid here. I've seen the videos of gas-filling disasters.