Monday, November 26, 2012

contextual acquaintance sailing


here lies the radiance of a paraphrase
forgotten specificity
amidst the non-sequitors and troubling musings
honor your circular habits
but there are no sign posts here 

there's no backspace
where we are in our second best suits
smelling of cheap beer and vertigo

we speak in fragmented spurts
and await the staccato retorts
answers and assertions

wring around the collars
fancy the lot of you.

and like most of you
it is only a flaw
to read and remain read

follow the lines like a jealous tea cup
no more porous or caverned than the last bit of sneering pride

with our previous conversations erased, left behind, 
i'm only to rely on memory, 
no space to wallow or revisit words we once wrote
only rewritten for my mind's draft

i hate the space between us.

i want to talk like grover and jane
day late witticisms and strangely uninformed stories

but i have no ink to fill this distance
i know i'd rather sit and wait
than sit and await-
these blank slates,
way too easy than interaction
in all its indisposed starkness

i want to be your phone call
your gentleman in static
still a lifetime away
hiding between these sheets of space

and the memories race
and the conversations fade
and the feelings replaced
and all the memories erased.

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