Don't quit your day job!
they said, when I was imitating stand up comedy
routines - and when I made her a stuffed
turkey - the time I tried backwards skating on a pale
blue pond - I could see this frozen
fish underneath wondering when I
will ever break this glass ceiling -
Life goes on!
they said, when she said we were no longer
going to be seeing each other on weekends, on phone
calls into the wee hours of twilight haze -
dull ***** on her cardigan, our footsteps in the streets
I saw your eyes in your hands and
my heart was in my lap -
I gave you a warm bottle of water, left
and never came back