Did you find it?
by the chipped asphalt shoulder
colder than the stares you could scare up
Did you find it?
in the wandering stars tracking across
this scarred summer sky?
I watch your search
while you  kiss a cigarette's brown
speckled paper skin.
you look past me, just clouds floating across your vision;
as I am a poor container for satisfaction
nothing but scuffed plastic tupperware
missing it's lid.
did you find it?
under the shades of abandonment
or in the shallows
graced by shadow.
did you find it.
the slippery sweetness of
satisfaction?