1.

Tonight I am eating cake
thinking about
all the work you have before you
like some awful feast.

 2.

I like how you got so interested
in the $10 sewing machine at the Habitat.
It was the colour of your car,
or the Statue of Liberty at night,
built into a wood table. I like
how it interested you so much
the morning after you let me sleep
beside you, a little while.

 3.

At some point I stopped forgetting stuff
over at your house. Didn't I?
When was that? Or was it just
that I realised that yeah, I could come back for it,
definitely?

 4.

We compared handwriting:
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
1234567890.
Yours isn't bad, you know.
Only I am pretty sure
you tried a little harder
to make it nice and pretty and neat
because someone was going to look at it.

Cheater!

 5.

I wonder if, like you said you would tonight,
if you cleaned your room. You know the trick,
right? It's not the apparent tidiness.
It's not the treatment of symptoms alone.

 6.

I am never sure if you realise I am listening.
Or if you are listening.

 7.

I'm not supposed to do anything, right?
I mean, just be patient?

You give me too much credit.
And rightly so! I used to know
what the fuck I was doing.

So I'll just be patient, right?
Barely? And barely tolerant?

 8.

Work is tastier than you think.
My words are smaller than hummingbirds.
And when did my skepticism
breed with my bravery?

 9.

You keep giving me that look!
What am I supposed to do,
when you give me that look?!


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