Tuesday, April 12, 2022

Coda with Vibrato

 I know this glance of yours.

Without a word

We are in the dangerous rhythm.


It brings

An invitation

To explore

The same thought

We know the other one is having.


No one is going to be happy

When one of us or the other

Loses their edge,

Explodes in a fit of nervous, uncontainable

Laughter. Sweating with the effort to stop.

Face flushed with effort

Willpower overcome but still revving the faulty engine.


Silence will be cremated.

All of the collective focus of this room

Will go the way of the dodo.

We will both be held to account

In the eyes of those whose moments are stolen from them.

There can be no sympathy,

There will be no quarter.

Just the shock of fits and starts

Failing to control themselves.

And a new communal rage seeks to devour us.


Please, look away.

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