slender wrists & a plum-indigo-wine coat or cardigan; just an item found in old, old shop. stunning with the grey-fray-pants. with the frown. oh-so-stunning with your hair turning stale & the white that shows through. but the crown of it all? the masterpiece-gone-right? you put on your awful, tired eyes & face the day. honey, it's all fine here next to you

the destinations cross over & over, so much that it could be fate. i don't need your smile. newspapers to dive into. politics. money. life. love. sad. sunshine to sleep in, a bookshelf to lean against. to lean against. books to drown in like a deja-vu-dream. & by the end of it i'm just soaken; i'm sullen & tired & they've watched me walk a line that isn't there.

it should be time
for a revolution.
or time to find
my way home

there should be time.

watch a room turn blue & black. traffic. lights. lights. if i might. should. i always knew how to trip before i fell.

resignation, just plain spent
stretch myself over
the memory of you.
just plain spent.

i should have known.