He thought the taste of her was baywater.

3am 4/5/11

"Haven't you"?
She sat on a concrete barrier. Gravel and grass beneath. Apartments ahead, and the asphalt lot, and trees and the houses and a small cat observing.
"So weird", he repeated himself, caught in a loop, unable to remember her, hoping she would stay, making himself heard against the roar of his pointless history.
"You said that".
"So weird"
She lived there years ago, he in the house.
The cat lost interest.
He, fumbling at her body.
She unaware spoke of the shows they watched.
He remembered kissing her, first time.
She wandered off. Maybe to a marriage, or employment.
He couldn't pass her father, wide and angry, so he wept in bed.
She passed him in the street and would not stop.
He thought the taste of her was baywater.
He thought she was a hundred other women.
He held her body like it was another body, he could not find her,
so she kicked at stones, and fell a thousand gravities away.
She had twelve children, married twice, kissed goodbye her grandmother.
He stumbled drunk and said "so weird" and could not remember how to open
the kitchen cabinet.




4:43pm 4/5/11

"Haven't you"?
She sat on a concrete barrier. Gravel and grass beneath. Apartments ahead, and the asphalt lot, and trees and the houses and a small cat observing.
"So weird". He repeated himself, caught in a loop, unable to remember her, hoping she would stay, making himself heard against the roar of his pointless history.
She, unaware he'd lost her, spoke of shows they'd watched.
"So weird".
"You said that".
She lived years ago, he in the house.
The cat lost interest.
He, fumbling at her body.
He remembered kissing her, first time.
She wandered off. Maybe to a marriage, or employment.
He couldn't pass her father, wide and angry, so he wept in bed.
She passed him in the street and would not stop.
He thought the taste of her was baywater.
He thought she was a hundred other women.
He held her body like it was another body, he could not find her,
so she kicked at stones, and fell away, a thousand gravities.
She had twelve children, married twice, kissed goodbye her grandmother.
He stumbled drunk and said "so weird" and could not remember how to open
the kitchen cabinet.