Friday, May 23, 2025

Strangers in the night March 17, 2015

 


I pretend it never happened, so we might do it again, as strangers, trading places with the rapper in the bar, so as to make it all seem meaningless, just an act in the dark. to work out some small kink without the consequence of love, to do it and to be done with it, letting it linger on the tip, like the taste of wine after the glass is empty, to meet in a dark bar and to play words at first, then action, the in and out of it, the grip of it around our hips, strangers on a train or street or tavern, engaged but not entwined, I pretend each night as sleep sweeps over me, we never did it, so we could do it again, and again and again, as strangers, meaningless and yet lingering, on the tip of our tongues

 


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