Six years today
sitting at Gaylord
finished eating
sipping water
continuing to read Kenneth Koch
happy that my weekend
nevertheless although
a ‘date’....
My one-year review.
It’s a tear of happiness.
Buy some gum.
We’ll see if he writes back.
Eyes welling up
next to the rusted balls
like artwork (or so-called)
and the one (not rusted) hung round the neck
that looks like a dumbbell (a dumbbell ball).
“Five years ago,”
he said “we broke up
this very weekend.”
He remembers dates.
