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| jane |
the two of us in bed under a quilt in the darkness despite the red light bulb i bought next door. i went to see you yesterday my feelings are as real as the rain on my eyelashes my nose was slightly pink from the breeze outside my eyes flashed green at you it was dim under the yellowed lights of the bar i wrapped my first two fingers around the neck of the bottle of beer sipped it out of the side of my mouth & thought about the loss of innocence that old guitar melody played out of the jukebox like a woman weeping desperately into the night i felt my insides melt warmly and wanted to cry my feelings are genuine but i could not cry there you told me it felt as if we had been laying together for ten years we smoked a cigarette and the smoke circled around our fingers avoiding the crack in the window you smoothed away the hair around my neck kissed the side right underneath my ear i turned away |
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