Saturday, June 21, 2025

Pull toy Oct. 10, 2012

  

My thoughts go round and round liked a roulette wheel, the silver ball destined to land somewhere: red, black, zero or double zero, here on the brink of it all being over I land on odd moments, like the time she texted me again and again, asking where I was and why I wasn’t where she was, some swanky new eatery she had to cover, and I still spinning, texting back: “do you mean me?” getting over and over the same response: “Where are you?.

And like a silly pull toy I am strung along, yanked back in that direction, she using magnets under the table to get the ball to land where she wants: red, black, zero or double zero, and in my head I wonder should I stay or go, rush back to where she is even if she won’t answer my texted queries, and I have to guess, and I rush back there, yanked there, hoping this might be the reprieve I’d hope for, ending up finally in the place where she is, only to have her ask what I am doing there, telling me the texts she sent weren’t for me, and here with her vacancy stare, I wonder if it ever meant me, then or now.

 


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