Friday, July 5, 2024

spirits in the night April 13, 2012


 


She says she wants to hear me 

do it over the phone

 some beastly sounds even I

 don't hear when I do it in the room I'm in.

A late night request I'm scared to comply,

 and don't know why, me in a dark room,

she in one of her own, miles apart with only

 the grunt of it to connect this with that,

 her with me and no cigarette afterwards

 to claim anything happened at all.

Why?

What does she get out of it except the echo of it,

 amid the static, not even able to know if it is real,

 if any of this is real, we spirits in the night,

connected by this thin threads

she needs her imagination to see me at all.

 


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