somewhere-over-the-sun

Panic strikes me when I think about a sentence that isn__ given the chance to live because I don__ have a pen in my hand or am not sitting near enough to someone familiar to speak it to. Especially if it__ a particularly good sentence, a sentence with truth or beauty or humor or sadness to it. The best ones always take you by surprise. They sneak into your head while you__e walking down the aisles at a supermarket, or flat-out assault you when you__e at your grandmother__ funeral, and you have to scramble to give the thought life before it__ gone forever. Cocktail napkins, palms, text messages sent to yourself.