BEFORE I DELETE YOU (if you haven't deleted me already)

"... as she saw nothing but young men all day long ... this sight of her fellow-traveller was completely lost in her mind, as the crooked pin dropped by a child into the wishing-well twirls in the water and disappears for ever. Virginia Woolf &

    I bet you don't remember me.
        Dismiss this if you don't.
            The gravity of time
                sucks all we know
                    down deep into a dark abyss.
            The wonder is
                how much we can recall.
    A straight pin
        would have fallen down
            without resistance,
                swiftly in the dark.
    That crooked pin descending
        circled round a little slower
            in its spinning arc.
    I want to say,
        however brief our bond together was,
            just know, before you drop away,
                some human bent in you
                    made me respond.
        I wanted here
            to honor that today.
    My wish for you,
         "Good luck."
            Just thought I'd tell you,
                while you're sinking,
                    whirling down my well.
 

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[TLK]

Ah, the parting message: always best abbreviated to 'f**k you'.