A LONG STORY BRIEFLY TOLD

November 16, 2002

Last night
You weren't there
Yea so
I heard the band.
Electric
sounds rattling my brain
Yea so
the girl next to me
flashed her blood red
      underwear
"Like what you see?"
Yea so
"Want to be close to me?
Yea so
silence
in a smoked filled
      room
on the west side of
      the West Village
Yea so
She wasn't you
You weren't there
Yea so.

© 2002, Jeffrey D. J. Kallenberg

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