Wednesday, June 11, 2025

a stone Buddha Sept 9, 2012

 

I won't pretend to know what made her go off this time,only I can't imagine it has anything to do with me

 I sent no late wishes for her birthday or early greetings for old souls day though as relayed to me from our all loving former temporary boss he had to calm her down since it occurred at the office

 maybe she is as fragile as he says she is and I the perpetual bull caught in the china shop of her life

or maybe more likely a staggering stupid drunk, stumbling through a life as if through a mine field

 I only heard of his second hand the wail of it reverberating in me the way it did that night after the bar or worse when I called/ texted her to tell her I had talked to him about her

 she at the office then, too, with him rushing to rescue her when she said at least once we should not

 yet it's not the wail that resounds with me now

 it is the silence, as if I have ceased to exist and she floats past where I sit, she a storm cloud, me a stone Buddha

 meaningless


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