Lines of Communication

[tectak]

We should be able to talk this one out, you and I.
In this space and time we move together;
but things in common? Well, we have nothing.
Will that do? I could talk to you about that.
I like the way you smile when you read,
I can’t help it. I could watch you until
you look up. Look at me. I’m not looking at you.
I’m looking at the window.

We should be able to say hello without suggesting more...
than one word should reasonably mean. I’ll start.
No. You start. It’s better if this process begins in your head.
Crazy people talk to strangers and I am not crazy;
but if you say hello, well, I think you should know
that I won’t think less of you.
I can see you in the window but now and then I lose you
to a tree or a black stone wall.

We can’t go on like this. We really must talk. I need you...
to tell me why you smile whenever you read your book;
but I shouldn’t ask. Hey, you did it again. I can see the corners
of your mouth out of the corner of my eye. You are not reading.
Hello is coming…I almost said it. A bridge just passed by.
Bridge and moment link and both are down the line.
Well, that’s just fine. Say nothing. We’ll just sit here.
“Hello”. “Oh, hello, I was just thinking….”


Tectak
June 2013