I began to realize it was going to be a long night
I really hadn’t had time to work out the ramifications
Her voice was honed and hard
You don’t have to put up with that
We were just marking time
The morning was all but gone
I got up with the feeling that the world was a hospitable place
The day had begun peaceably enough
My mother had always strictly policed the way I spoke at home
I thought I felt the movement of the world turning
Minute wrinkles appeared at the corners
Wherever you go, I said, I’ll follow you
I feel as if it were a mountain to climb
How lucky I was to lie like that
We were private up there
They seemed to talk in code above my head
What does it look like?
But I couldn’t give in
Something has to happen
But my attention is all thrusting forward, onward
A sleepy, viscous, sensuous emanation
His future was somewhere else
You feel sorry for me?
I’m looking forward to the change
It’s sad out there
I’m sorry to barge
People often made this mistake
A team – that’s how it felt
The world performs miracles
Day after day, running from here to there
Everything will happen as you want it
He’s done enough for you
So that’s where you were all night?
Then there were his bad days
You have to do something
He turned his face from her
Gone Fishin’
They would be home before night fell
The weather grew cold and there was snow
They had left nothing to chance
No one ever talked about it
Some of them danced with girls from the town
But nothing happened except that ordinary life came back
Everyone was waiting for something to happen
No one was sure who would come back
I don’t go out much
She nodded but said nothing
Each new decade burying the previous one
New experiences take the place of old ones
Now I must ask you to leave
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