It is important, as one reads these lines, to pay attention not only to the distance between two realities as galactic distance, but also that Coates is stating that he lives in his own world, no matter the condition of it, and that these were worlds were linked in some way, no matter the distance between them. Coates is serious about the energy that is required to uncouple the worlds and to keep them detached (the cost of black life, in black death, in the death of Trayvon Martin), but also to keep open the bonds the two still have. Coates is serious about the capacities of the body to create galaxies and universes, and gateways through which to gain access. These galaxies and universes would be ones in which one does not have to fear for
