a eulogy for togetherness

10/20/22

leaving is a physical manifestation

of a romantic presupposition, i might

have stumbled over my words, for

presupposition of leaving is sleeping, all snake-like

through the roots of every romance

its sleep is most fragile

its gifts are delicious

take it as a warning,

it

is

be wrong here and there,

as I usually am

they say two wrongs don’t make a right,

and still

if you close your eyes, they have never left

if you open your eyes, they are always leaving