Monday, September 9, 2013

The People v. Existence

She sleeps
beside me

but I have no idea
who she is.

I knew her once
very well

some time ago.

Maybe a week
or 10 years
have passed –

I don’t sleep anymore.

As a shadow
of my former self

she is merely
an apparition

and as real
as this night

falls upon the crooked earth

in a gold car
with the windows up

she sleeps beside me

but neither of us
are really present

here.

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